The Dream Lover Author:Elizabeth Berg At the beginning of this novel, we meet Aurore Dupin as she is leaving her estranged husband, a loveless marriage, and her family’s estate in the French countryside to start a new life in Paris. — There, she gives herself a new name -- George Sand -- and pursues her dream of becoming a wr... more »iter, embracing an unconventional and even scandalous lifestyle. Sand’s many lovers and friends include Frédéric Chopin, Gustave Flaubert, Franz Liszt, Eugène Delacroix, Victor Hugo, Marie Dorval, and Alfred de Musset.
As Sand welcomes fame and friendship, she fights to overcome heartbreak and prejudice, failure and loss. Though considered the most gifted genius of her time, she works to reconcile the pain of her childhood, of disturbing relationships with her mother and daughter, and of her intimacies with women and men.
Will the life she longs for always be just out of reach -- a dream?« less