Lives Like Loaded Guns Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Lives Like Loaded Guns Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
- ISBN 13:
9780143119142
- ISBN 10:
0143119141
- Edition: Reprint
- Format: Paperback
- Copyright: 05/31/2011
- Publisher: Penguin Books
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Summary
" 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 Gunsis 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.