The Raven's Bride
$34.65
- Paperback
368 pages
- Release Date
1 April 2011
Summary
When eight-year-old Virginia “Sissy” Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Edgar Allan Poe, he seems the very image of the make-believe husband she conjures up in childhood games. He’s thirteen years her elder, but kind, soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy floats in and out of her life as he fails his way through West Point and then the army. Each time he returns to Baltimore, their odd friendship grows, and her understanding of the moody, troubled writer deepens. As Sissy prepares for a car…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780312567231 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0312567235 |
| Author: | Lenore Hart |
| Publisher: | Griffin Publishing |
| Imprint: | Saint Martin's Griffin,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 368 |
| Release Date: | 1 April 2011 |
| Weight: | 431g |
| Dimensions: | 191mm x 127mm |
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“Lenore Hart takes on one the great biographical mysteries of American literary culture – the strange and passionate love between Edgar Allan Poe and Sissy, his child-bride. Only an exceptionally daring novelist would venture in this dark wood, yet Hart has charged bravely into the thicket. She returns from the wilderness with a lively, compelling narrative in Sissy’s voice, here wonderfully imagined and believable, even when verging on the fantastic. The Raven’s Bride is a bristling novel that adds considerably to the legend of Poe and his ill-fated marriage, evoking a world long gone with an eye for the exact detail.” –Jay Parini, author of The Last Station
About The Author
Lenore Hart
Lenore Hart’s novels include Waterwoman, Ordinary Springs, The Treasure of Savage Island and Becky: The Life and Loves of Becky Thatche’r. She teaches in the graduate creative writing program at Wilkes Univesity, and at the Norman Mailer Writers Colony in Cape Cod. She lives in Virginia with novelist David Poyer and their daughter, Naia.
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