Fanny

<p>In her fifties Mrs. Frances Trollope became famous overnight for her book attacking the United States. Twenty-five years later she sharpens her pen for her most controversial work yet -- the biography of her old friend the radical and feminist Fanny Wright. She recalls the 1820s when the young Fanny erupted into the Trollopes' sleepy English cottage like a volcano her red hair flying her talk aflame with utopian ideals. Before long Wright convinced her to follow her to America a journey of extreme penury frontier hardships and the most satisfying sensual romance of Frances Trollope's life.</p><p><em>Fanny: A Fiction</em> is a wonderful new departure for Edmund White -- a quirky dazzling story of two extraordinary nineteenth-century women and a vibrant questioning exploration of the nature of idealism the clay feet of heroes and the illusory power of the American dream.</p>