Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds - Couverture rigide

Gordon, Lyndall

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844084531 ISBN 13 : 9781844084531

Editeur : Virago Press Ltd, 2010

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'This book is unforcedly and powerfully original' --Sunday Telegraph

'Gordon takes the lid off the violent emotional life of the Dickinson family and its far-reaching effects on the poet's work. What she exposes is a seething PEYTON PLACE of adultery, betrayal and lifelong feuding . . . An entirely new reading of Dickinson's life with this brilliant tale of turbulence both on and off the page' --Literary Review

'As rich as a novel by Henry James. There is the same complexity of motives, the same grim comedy . . . "Tell the truth but tell it slant" was Dickinson's advice to herself . . . Perhaps for the first time since Dickinson's death, she invites us to meet the poet head-on' --Daily Telegraph

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Virago Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1844084531
• ISBN 13: 9781844084531
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 512