The Mistressclass -

Michèle Roberts

Little, Brown & Company

2003

306 páginas

10h 12m

ISBN-10: 0316725501

What happens when a young female student falls in love with a charismatic, older male teacher? Imbalances of power are at the heart of this troubling novel, which compares a contemporary love triangle with the situation of Charlotte Bronte vis-à-vis her tutor in Brussels, Monsieur Heger. Charlotte writes passionate letters from beyond the grave. Vinny, in the present, is haunted by the ghosts of London's writers. Masculine sexuality and masculine vulnerability, in the shape of Adam, Vinny's ex-lover, are held up to the light and examined.