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Title: Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family’s Feuds
Author: Lyndall Gordon
ISBN: 9780670021932
Publisher: Viking
Published: 2010
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1
Number of Pages: 512
Condition Note: Excellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher : In 1882, Emily Dickinson’s brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination. Thanks to unprecedented use of letters, diaries, and legal documents, Gordon digs deep into the life and work of Emily Dickinson, to reveal the secret behind the poet’s insistent seclusion, and presents a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual sustenance, and immortality all on her own terms. An enthralling story of creative genius, filled with illicit passion and betrayal, “Lives Like Loaded Guns” is sure to cause a stir among Dickinson’s many devoted readers and scholars.
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