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Helen Keller in Love

Hardcover

Published: 26th April 2012
For Ages: 18+ years old
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A captivating novel that explores the little-known romance of a beloved American icon

Helen Keller has long been a towering figure in the pantheon of world heroines. Yet the enduring portrait of her in the popular imagination is The Miracle Worker, which ends when Helen is seven years old.

Rosie Sultan's debut novel imagines a part of Keller's life she rarely spoke of or wrote about: the man she once loved. When Helen is in her thirties and Annie Sullivan is diagnosed with tuberculosis, a young man steps in as a private secretary. Peter Fagan opens a new world to Helen, and their sensual interactions-signing and lip-reading with hands and fingers-quickly set in motion a liberating, passionate, and clandestine affair. It's not long before Helen's secret is discovered and met with stern disapproval from her family and Annie. As pressure mounts, the lovers plot to elope, and Helen is caught between the expectations of the people who love her and her most intimate desires.

Richly textured and deeply sympathetic, Sultan's highly inventive telling of a story Keller herself would not tell is both a captivating romance and a rare glimpse into the mind and heart of an inspirational figure.


"Debut novelist Rosie Sultan's "Helen Keller in Love" spins a tale of forbidden love, invoking scents, textures and tastes on every page to show how Helen 'saw' the world. She grounds the story in well-known incidents from Helen's childhood, but draws on later biographies, speeches and letters to show Helen as a woman, intelligent and determined but forced by her handicaps to be dependent on her family and employees. . . . Sultan skillfully expresses Helen's main frustrations: at the public for refusing to take her seriously when she speaks on political issues unrelated to blindness, and at her family and friends for refusing to see her as a grown woman, with a woman's desires. "Helen Keller in Love" holds readers' attention with a fresh depiction of a woman famous for overcoming her physical handicaps, forced to fight for her right to love." --Katie Noah Gibson, Shelf Awareness

ISBN: 9780670023493
ISBN-10: 0670023493
Audience: General
For Ages: 18+ years old
For Grades: 12+
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 242
Published: 26th April 2012
Dimensions (cm): 21.082 x 14.478  x 2.286
Weight (kg): 0.358