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More copies of this ISBNLives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feudsby Lyndall Gordon
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Publisher Comments: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. Review:"Lives Like Loaded Guns....reads like a fabulous detective story...[Gordon] takes us into undiscovered territory." The Washington Post
Review:"Fascinating....[Gordon] shatters the Dickinson myth, revealing for the first time the twisted tale of how Dickinson came to be revered as 'a harmless homebody shut off from live to suffer and contemplate a disappointment in love.'...Brilliant literary detective work....Uncovering the mystery of why the mischievous, sensible creature who emerges from this biography hid from the world is where Gordon hits her stride...Gordon catches the poet's essence, allowing us the closest, most thrilling insights yet into the volcanic genius of Amherst." The Chicago Tribune
Review:"The tale that Lyndall Gordon unveils in Lives Like Loaded Guns is so lurid, so fraught with forbidden passions, that readers may be disappointed to find that no actual gun goes off in this feverish account of the Dickinson family 'feuds.'...Gordon's suggestion that Dickinson may have been epileptic has already inspired debate among scholars....A vivid account." The New York Times Book Review
Review:"The portrait of Emily Dickinson that emerges from this book is far more intriguing than the one I and no doubt many others have been carrying around in our head. Banished, the wisp of a girl in white flitting through the 19th-century gloom. Gone, the disappointed spinster with some ophthalmic abnormality. Erased, the 'harmless homebody...shut off from life.' And in their place a strange, seething creature filled with passion whose life was, in some fundamental sense, an exercise in control....It's what Gordon does with the poetry that is most compelling. A sensitive reader and a great admirer of Dickinson's work, Gordon is skillful at harnessing the poet's words in the service of her biography...I.t's a fascinating exercise in literary detection." The Boston Globe
Review:"Emily Dickinson, the seemingly demure and buttoned-up American poet, comes wonderfully to life in Lyndall Gordon's telling biography. In Lives Like Loaded Guns, she entertains fresh interpretations of the poet's life....Viewing the poet through the lens of 19th-century spin doctors is fresh and provocative." USA Today
Review:"This astonishing book, written with common sense and compassion, will do nothing less than revolutionize the way in which Dickinson is read for years to come." The Economist
Review:"The great virtue of Gordon's biography is that it makes Dickinson the person — sister, friend, seducer, adversary — seem as scary her poems....Gordon is the author of biographies...that are distinguished by their sharpness of focus and economy of scale. Rather than competing for our attention with the author in question, Gordon tells the whole life by concentrating on what she judges to be the most potent aspect of it." The Nation
Review:"Mesmerizing....You wonder what this woman [Emily Dickinson] might have made of the lawyers and court trials and furor that continued for decades over her poems, found after her death locked in a cherry wood chest in her room. Other truths were locked there, too; Gordon, admiringly and wisely, hands us a key." The Seattle Times
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. 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. About the AuthorLyndall Gordon has written five major literary biographies, including Virginia Woolf: A Writer's Life, winner of the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. She is a senior research fellow at St.Hilda's College in Oxford, England.
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