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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family´s Feuds
Lyndall Gordon
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Description for Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family´s Feuds
Paperback. * 'As rich as a novel by Henry James' DAILY TELEGRAPH * 'Will do nothing less than revolutionise the way Dickinson is read for years' GUARDIAN The definitive biography, out now in paperback Num Pages: 512 pages, Section: 16, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; BGL; DSBF; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 197 x 33. Weight in Grams: 430.
Emily Dickinson is regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come to us as an odd and helpless woman living a life of self imposed seclusion. Lyndall Gordon sees instead a volcanic character living on her own terms and with a steely confidence in her own talent; a woman whose family feuded over a hothouse of adultery and devastating betrayal and a woman who had her own secret. After her death the fight for possession of Emily and her poetry became the feud's focus.
'Lives Like Loaded Guns has cracked one of poetry's ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Little, Brown Book Group
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
358g
Number of Pages
512
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781844084548
SKU
V9781844084548
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Ref
99-50
About Lyndall Gordon
Lyndall Gordon was born in Cape Town and studied American Literature at Columbia University in New York. She came to England through the Rhodes Trust in 1973. She is the prize-winning author of biographies including The Imperfect Life of T. S. Eliot; Henry James: His Women and his Art; Charlotte Bronte: A Passionate Life; Virginia Woolf: A Writer's ... Read more
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