THE LETTERS OF MINA HARKER

First published in 1998, Dodie Bellamy's debut novel The Letters of Mina Harker sought to resuscitate the central female character f rom Bram Stoker's Dracula and reimagine her as an independent woman living in San Francisco during the 1980sa woman not unlike Dodi e Bellamy. Harker confesses the most intimate details of her relationships with four different men in a series of letters. Vampirizi ng Mina Harker, Bellamy turns the novel into a laboratory: a series of attempted transmutations between the two women in which the r eal story...[Read more]