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The Broken Tower

The Life of Hart Crane

by Paul L. Mariani

ISBN: 0393047261
ISBN-13: 9780393047264
Format: Hardcover

Summary

This biography of Hart Crane, which draws heavily on his letters, includes frank appraisals of his homosexuality, his relationship with his father, and his last months in Mexico. A New York Times Notable Book in 1999.

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"A superbly wrought, movingly told biography....It is a compelling story, and Mariani tells it with the kind of insight and psychological acuity worthy of a great Russian novelist."

   -- Kirkus

"What Mariani's useful and interesting new biography shows most clearly is the stir he created around him: the turbulence his poetry caused in the few people who were attentive to it, and the havoc wrought among his friends and lovers....Mariani's book is excellent on Crane's parents....One of [its] very real successes...is that it captures something of the poignancy of Crane's defeated and devoted relationship with his father."    -- Adam Phillips

   -- London Review of Books

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 1999
Size: 6 x 10 inches
Weight: 1.95 pounds
Pages: 492

Publisher's Notes

Few poets have lived as extraordinary and as fascinating a life as Hart Crane, who made his meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then flamed out just as suddenly, killing himself at the age of 32. I The Broken Tower" tells his compelling story. 34 photos.

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Paperback - W W Norton & Co Inc (2000) - from $5.82

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