The notebooks of Anna Wulf allow the reader to explore the multi-faceted dimensions of personality and how individuals attempt to make sense of their world. The once-published author discovers that her need to write is both pain and panacea. Representative of her African experience, the Black Notebook is further divided into subdivisions that are labeled "Source" and "Money." Though the left side contains the seminal seeds of Anna's African memories, eventually all that she records appears in the right column, dealing with the business transactions related to her writing about her time...
Source: Beacham's Encyclopedia of Popular Fiction, ©2001 Gale Cengage. All Rights Reserved. Full copyright.
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