by Emma Tennant · FABER & FABER INC * · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780571153350
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«The Bad Sister» is a fiction collection by Emma Tennant, published by Faber & Faber in paperback (224 pages, in English).
Collects three works by Emma Tennant: The Bad Sister and Two Women of London reinterpret two Scottish classics of the macabre —the confessions of a justified sinner, by James Hogg, and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, by Stevenson—, relocating them to London with female protagonists. Wild Nights is a story of love and family tradition.
The title work was originally published in 1978; this joint edition appeared in 1989.
For readers interested in contemporary versions of gothic classics, with female protagonists and a London setting.
Emma Christina Tennant FRSL was an English novelist and editor of Scottish extraction, known for a post-modern approach to her fiction, often imbued with fantasy or magic. Several of her novels give a feminist or dreamlike twist to classic stories, such as Two Women of London: The Strange Case of Ms Jekyll and Mrs Hyde. She also published under the pseudonym Catherine Aydy.
