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Item Details
| Title:
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LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS
EMILY DICKINSON AND HER FAMILY'S FEUDS |
| By: |
Lyndall Gordon |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
| List price:
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£12.98 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0748114521 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780748114528 |
| Publisher: |
LITTLE, BROWN BOOK GROUP |
| Pub. date: |
4 February, 2010 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Description: |
* The acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, T.S. Eliot, Charlotte Bronte, Virginia Woolf and Henry James, turns now to the life of Emily Dickinson, one of America's best-loved poets |
| Synopsis: |
Though in her lifetime only ten of Emily Dickinson's poems were published, her death revealed 1,789 poems, many of them in hand-sewn booklets, secreted in a locked chest. She is now regarded as one of the greatest poets of all time, but she has come down to us as a woman disappointed in love, an odd and pathetic woman who dressed in white and shut herself away. Lyndall Gordon sees instead her volcanic character - 'a soul at White Heat' - a mystic and lover whose family harboured a hothouse drama of sex, scandal and devastating betrayal. Emily Dickinson was a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual quickening and immortality all on her own terms: she wrote 'My Life had Stood - a Loaded Gun'. Here is an explosive genius. |
| Illustrations: |
Section: 16, b/w |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Virago Press Ltd |
| Prizes: |
Short-listed for Duff Cooper Memorial Prize 2011 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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