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LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS: EMILY DICKINSON AND HER FAMILY'S By Lyndall Gordon HC
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- Seller Notes
- “2010 FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER (NO DUST)”
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Type
- Hardcover
- Features
- Illustrated
- Original Language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0670021938
- Publication Name
- Viking
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9780670021932
- Book Title
- Lives like Loaded Guns : Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
- Topic
- Poetry, Literary
- Item Width
- 6.4in
- Item Weight
- 26.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 512 Pages
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In 1882, Emily Dickinson's brother Austin began a passionate love affair with Mabel Todd, a young Amherst faculty wife, setting in motion a series of events that would forever change the lives of the Dickinson family. The feud that erupted as a result has continued for over a century. Lyndall Gordon, an award-winning biographer, tells the riveting story of the Dickinsons, and reveals Emily as a very different woman from the pale, lovelorn recluse that exists in the popular imagination. Thanks to unprecedented use of letters, diaries, and legal documents, Gordon digs deep into the life and work of Emily Dickinson, to reveal the secret behind the poet's insistent seclusion, and presents a woman beyond her time who found love, spiritual sustenance, and immortality all on her own terms. An enthralling story of creative genius, filled with illicit passion and betrayal, Lives Like Loaded Guns is sure to cause a stir among Dickinson's many devoted readers and scholars.
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Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0670021938
ISBN-13
9780670021932
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Product Key Features
Book Title
Lives like Loaded Guns : Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Poetry, Literary
Publication Year
2010
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Literary Criticism
Number of Pages
512 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.7in
Item Width
6.4in
Weight
26.6 Oz
Item Weight
26.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Age Range
18
Lc Classification Number
Ps1541.Z5g66 2010
Publication Date
2010-06-10
Grade from
Twelfth Grade
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" Lives Like Loaded Guns ...reads like a fabulous detective story, replete with hidden treasure, diabolical adversaries and a curse from one generation to the next...Gordon is fair to all...revealing their strengths and liabilities, and she corrects some of the inconsistencies of earlier biographies..."Abyss has no biographer," Dickinson warned future readers. But Gordon is not frightened of the pits and traps and the thousand masks that Emily wears. She takes us into undiscovered territory." - The Washington Post "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 "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...It''s a fascinating exercise in literary detection." - The Boston Globe "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 "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 "This astonishing book, written with common sense and compassion, will do nothing less than revolutionise the way in which Dickinson is read for years to come." - The Economist "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 "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 cherrywood chest in her room. Other truths were locked there, too; Gordon, admiringly and wisely, hands us a key." - The Seattle Times " Lives Like Loaded Guns is a remarkable achievement that deconstructs the image of Dickinson so entrenched in literary history. Gordon, a gifted storyteller, charts the ugly family dramas not to exploit them, but to prove how truly damaging they were to the poet''s legacy . . . This fascinating biography will inspire readers to return to Dickinson''s vastly rich poems and letters - and it''s her work for which she should be remembered, after all., "Lives Like Loaded Guns...reads like a fabulous detective story, replete with hidden treasure, diabolical adversaries and a curse from one generation to the next...Gordon is fair to all...revealing their strengths and liabilities, and she corrects some of the inconsistencies of earlier biographies..."Abyss has no biographer," Dickinson warned future readers. But Gordon is not frightened of the pits and traps and the thousand masks that Emily wears. She takes us into undiscovered territory." -The Washington Post "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 "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...It's a fascinating exercise in literary detection." -The Boston Globe "The tale that Lyndall Gordon unveils in Lives Like Loaded Gunsis 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 "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 "This astonishing book, written with common sense and compassion, will do nothing less than revolutionise the way in which Dickinson is read for years to come." -The Economist "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 "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 cherrywood chest in her room. Other truths were locked there, too; Gordon, admiringly and wisely, hands us a key." -The Seattle Times "Lives Like Loaded Gunsis a remarkable achievement that deconstructs the image of Dickinson so entrenched in literary history. Gordon, a gifted storyteller, charts the
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2010
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