Nicholson creates <b>a strong historical base</b> from which he imaginatively recreates the time period and the personalities involved

Independent on Sunday

The history is fascinating and <b>the poems are sublime</b>

The Sunday Times

<p><b>Masterly</b> ... zig-zagging between two contrasting eras, <b>weaves love, sex and poetry together seamlessly</b></p>

Mail on Sunday

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A <b>beguiling meditation </b>on poetry and love

The Times

<b>A compelling reflection on sex and marriage </b>in the 19th Century...an enjoyable concoction of first-hand accounts and modern imagination.

The Financial Times

Passion and poetry: two love stories intertwine - a true historical one and an imagined contemporary one, both intimately connected with Emily Dickinson's life.In 1881 a young married couple, Mabel and David Todd, arrive in stuffy Amherst, Massachusetts. He will take up a post at Amherst College; she will embark on an affair that rocks the town. Emily Dickinson's brother is the College's Treasurer, Austin Dickinson, a respected citizen of the town and a married man with three children. Austin's sister Emily lives as a recluse in the house next-door to Austin. Over the months that follow the Todds' arrival, Austin falls passionately in love with Mabel, and she with him. In the present day, Alice Dickinson, 24 years old, seeks to escape her copy-writing job and make a living as a screenwriter. She takes a short holiday to Amherst to research a screenplay on a story that has fascinated her since college days, where a love of Emily Dickinson's poems was triggered by the coincidence of her own surname.The story is the illicit love affair between Austin Dickinson and Mabel Todd. As she researches one love affair taking place under the watchful eye of Emily Dickinson, Alice embarks on a passionate liaison of her own, and the novel interweaves the stories of these two loves, illuminating both past and present in the process.
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Passion and poetry: two love stories intertwine - a true historical one and an imagined contemporary one, both intimately connected with Emily Dickinson's life
Nicholson creates a strong historical base from which he imaginatively recreates the time period and the personalities involved
Nicholson creates a strong historical base from which he imaginatively recreates the time period and the personalities involved - Independent on SundayEnjoyable...the history is fascinating and the poems are sublime - The Sunday TimesA beguiling meditation on poetry and love - The TimesIn this ambitious and brilliantly executed instalment a true historical love story intertwines with an imaginary contemporary one - Big Issue in the NorthWilliam Nicholson's masterly novel, zig-zagging between two contrasting eras, weaves love, sex and poetry together so seamlessly that you can hardly see the joins. - Mail on SundayA compelling reflection on sex and marriage in the 19th Century...an enjoyable concoction of first-hand accounts and modern imagination. - The Financial TimesThe novel has quite a sensual side that strays from what you might be expecting - We Love This Book
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781848666504
Publisert
2016-07-28
Utgiver
Vendor
Quercus Publishing
Vekt
220 gr
Høyde
196 mm
Bredde
128 mm
Dybde
24 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
304

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