A young woman learns about life, and love found and lost, in this thought-provoking debut novel by one of the twentieth century's most brilliant and prolific writers--with an introduction by Elisa Gabbert, author of The Unreality of Memory"Absolutely unafraid . . . Here at last is a book which attains unity as surely as Wuthering Heights, though by a different path."--E. M. Forster London, 1905: Twenty-four-year-old Rachel Vinrace is a free spirited but painfully na