Book Reviews
In its attempt to capture Sand's entire eventful life, the novel can get overly expository. In the smaller, more intimate moments—the kind that helped make her previous books so successful—Berg offers vivid, sensual detail and a sensitive portrayal of the yearning and vulnerability behind Sand’s bold persona.
Publishers Weekly
(Starred review.) Verdict: Years ago, Berg urged Nancy Horan (Loving Frank) to write a fictional biography of Sand. Horan told Berg to write it herself. Wisely, Berg took her advice to heart, as evidenced by this beautiful, imaginative re-creation of a brilliant, complicated writer, feminist, romantic, and activist. —Beth Andersen, formerly with Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI
Library Journal
[A] vivid historical novel...."There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved," [George] Sand once wrote, and it is that quest that becomes the focal point of Berg's novel.... [Aurore], intoxicating, beautiful, gifted...never quite becomes human. She remains mythlike, and we remain one step removed. A thoroughly pleasant escape, if not a particularly deep one.
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