Helen Keller in Love

Name: Helen Keller in Love
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Rosie Sultan
ISBN: 9781455161645

Author: Rosie Sultan

Narrator: Christine Williams

Unabridged: 7 hr 26 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 04/26/2012

Categories: Fiction

Synopsis

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 comes fromThe Miracle Worker, which ends when Helen is seven years old. Rosie Sultans debut novel imagines a part of Kellers 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 interactionsigning and lip-reading with hands and fingersquickly sets in motion a liberating, passionate, and clandestine affair. Its not long before Helens secret is discovered and met with stern disapproval from her family and Annie. As pressure mounts, the lovers plot to elope, and Helen finds herself caught between the expectations of the people who love her and her most intimate desires.Richly textured and deeply sympathetic, Sultans 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.

About Rosie Sultan

Rosie Sultan won a PEN Discovery Award for fiction and earned her MFA at Goddard College. A former fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, she has taught writing at Boston University, the University of Massachusetts, and Suffolk University. She lives with her husband and son in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Reviews

Goodreads review by CJ on May 07, 2016

Saw this book sitting on a shelf in the library and decided it looked interesting, picked it up. The book just what the title says, a story about Helen Keller being in love. I wasn't aware of this until I read the notes in the back of the book, but it's a historical fiction, and there are stories an......more

Goodreads review by MaryannC Victorian Dreamer on May 17, 2012

Okay, having read the mixed reviews for this book, I have to say that I thoroughly enjoyed it. I can understand some of the low ratings for this novel because this story seems to go against what Helen Keller was, a woman of strength who overcame some of the hardest obstacles any person could ever fa......more

Goodreads review by Jackie on May 12, 2012

I've been fascinated by Helen Keller my whole life, reading bio after bio after bio about her. While this book is a work of historical fiction, there is a historical base to it--Helen Keller did indeed have a short love affair in the fall of 1916 with Peter Fagan , a failed reporter who was hired to......more

Goodreads review by Tara on April 12, 2012

As a deaf woman, I've always idolized Helen Keller or my idea of her. A woman that overcame not just deafness but also blindness. If Helen Keller could learn to do for herself, then so could I. This novel dashes to absolute Hell, my good opinion, my idolizing of Helen Keller. I had to keep telling m......more

Goodreads review by Lydia on July 17, 2012

Reviewed at Novel Escapes I really, really wanted to love this novel. Like many people, I knew some of Helen Keller's story before cracking open Helen Keller in Love, but I wasn't familiar with her entire life. The idea of a secret love intrigued me and I had looked forward to learning more about her......more