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Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
by Gordon, Lyndall
- Used
- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0670021938
- ISBN 13
- 9780670021932
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About This Item
New York: Viking Press, 2010. Boards. Good/Good. 8vo, 491 pp., illus. Head and heel of spine and corners of boards bumped with one corner a bit scuffed, page edges tanned, remainder mark on bottom edge. Jacket bumped at head and heel of spine and folds.
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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- ANTHOLOGY BOOKSELLERS
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18674
- Title
- Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
- Author
- Gordon, Lyndall
- Format/Binding
- Boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670021938
- ISBN 13
- 9780670021932
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010
- Keywords
- Literary Biography , , , ,
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