The Raven's Bride - Softcover

Hart, Lenore

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312567235 ISBN 13: 9780312567231

Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin, 2011

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Book by Hart Lenore

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"Lenore Hart takes on one the great biographical mysteries of American literary culture -- the strange and passionate love between Edgar Allan Poe and Sissy, his child-bride. Only an exceptionally daring novelist would venture in this dark wood, yet Hart has charged bravely into the thicket. She returns from the wilderness with a lively, compelling narrative in Sissy's voice, here wonderfully imagined and believable, even when verging on the fantastic. The Raven's Bride is a bristling novel that adds considerably to the legend of Poe and his ill-fated marriage, evoking a world long gone with an eye for the exact detail." --Jay Parini, author of The Last Station

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Virginia 'Sissy' Clemm falls in love with her cousin Edgar Allan Poe when she's merely a girl of seven. Fourteen years her elder, he's dark and brooding, the picture of a little girl's romantic fantasy. He floats in and out of her childhood, as he fails his way through West Point, the military and a succession of editorial jobs where his talents aren't appreciated. Each time he returns, their odd friendship grows stronger, and her understanding of the moody, troubled writer takes on new and strange dimensions. But her childhood crush takes a serious turn, when he proposes marriage at 13. Her mother objects, but Sissy cannot be swayed. She devotes her young life to Edgar Allan Poe. This provocative novel explores the curious and confounding relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and his child bride Sissy, who, before she died of consumption at age 25, was Poe's constant companion, critic and friend. Lenore Hart, author of Becky, explores the inner life of one of literature's most heralded and haunted figures by imagining the heart of the woman who loved him, inspired him and undid him.

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• Verlag: St. Martin's Griffin
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0312567235
• ISBN 13: 9780312567231
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368