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Mimi, a fashionable but withdrawn woman, takes pity on a bag lady at the back of the cinema. In hospital, nurses name the old woman Bella and as they peel away layers of her clothing, so the layers of her life are narrated and we find that she is Mimi's mother, whose alienation led to destitution.
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Jenny Diski's memoir, Skating to Antarctica, offered a painful portrait of a childhood beset by parental abuse and abandonment. The Dream Mistress covers similar territory, but in this case, fiction in some ways proves more disturbing than real life. Mimi is a narcoleptic dressmaker, Bella a mentally unstable street person. Their lives intersect briefly when Mimi finds an unconscious Bella in a back alley and calls an ambulance. Though the two won't meet again, it soon becomes apparent as the novel switches back and forth between them that they are more closely connected than either knows.
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Diski juxtaposes the understated terror of Bella's slow disintegration with the almost dreamlike detachment of Mimi's emotionally vacant life. Though it's clear from the start just how these two women are connected, the author doesn't overplay it, choosing, instead, subtle parallels in their lives--Bella entering the church as a nun with faith but without belief eerily resonates with Mimi's illicit affair that is at once passionate yet loveless. There's a great deal of graphic sex that is more disturbing than erotic, and Diski doesn't pull her punches when it comes to describing madness, homelessness, or the often brutal relations between men and women. The Dream Mistress is an undeniably intelligent novel, if a chilly one; a book that is easier to admire than to love. --Alix Wilber
JENNY DISKI was born in 1947 in London, where she lives and works. She is the author of seven novels, as well as a collection of short stories. Her first non-fiction book, Skating to Antarctica, was recently published to great critical acclaim.
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- PublisherWeidenfeld & Nicolson
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0297817094
- ISBN 13 9780297817093
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