Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and her Family's Feuds
by Lyndall Gordon
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
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Synopsis
" Lives Like Loaded Guns ...reads like a fabulous detective story...[Gordon] takes us into undiscovered territory." -- The Washington Post In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother, Austin, began an adulterous love affair with the accomplished and ravishing Mabel Todd, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. Award-winning biographer Lyndall Gordon tells the story of the feud that erupted-and that still continues today. Making unprecedented use of letters, diaries, and legal documents, Gordon proposes a groundbreaking new solution to the secret behind the poet's insistent seclusion, presenting a woman beyond her time who found love, spirituality, and immortality all on her own terms. The first major biography of Dickinson in nearly ten years, Lives Like Loaded Guns is a highly acclaimed story of creative genius, illicit passion, and betrayal that will forever change the way we view one of America's most important literary figures.
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- Bookseller
- The FW Collections (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H594
- Title
- Lives Like Loaded Guns
- Author
- Lyndall Gordon
- Format/Binding
- Gray Boards rose binding Gold Printing on spine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- first american edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- NY
- Date Published
- 2010
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry; biography autobiography;
- Size
- 6.25x9.25
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