A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer - Brossura

Jeremy Poolman

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ISBN 10: 0747561788 ISBN 13: 9780747561781

Casa editrice: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2003

Riassunto

Brilliant, bizarre, but not in any conventional sense a biography A Wounded Thing Must Hide is Jeremy Poolman's first, fiercely original foray into non-fiction. Haunted by the death of his own wife, Karen, the author follows Libbie Custer, the wife of General Custer, through her extraordinary life in search of he knows not what. He vividly recreates key scenes in Libbie's life - meeting the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Tsar Alexander III and Henry James - and details the glorious, wayward career of the general himself, culminating in the slaughter at Little Big Horn. Through the tangibly real recreation of the historical events that are so important to the narrator, the author of SKIN gets under the skin, gets to the places other biographies can't reach. Perhaps through exploring a widow's determination to protect her husband's damaged reputation, he can find a way to deal with his own loss. Perhaps by exploring Libby's and Custer's enduring love he can find a form for his own. Here, obliquely, biography bleeds into autobiography.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jeremy Poolman is the author of four novels, INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT THE STATE OF ARIZONA, winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, Best first Book, AUDACITY'S SONG, MY KIND OF AMERICA and SKIN. This is his first work of non-fiction.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0747561788
• ISBN 13: 9780747561781
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 320
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile