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Wilson, Frances, 1964-
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Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Wilson, Frances, 1964-
Lawrence, D. H. (David Herbert), 1885-1930.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
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Burning man : the trials of
D
.H.
Lawrence
/ Frances Wilson.
by
Wilson, Frances, 1964-
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Call #:
921 L419b
Subjects
Lawrence
,
D
.
H
. (
David
Herbert
),
1885-1930
.
Authors, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English -- 20th century -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780374282257 (hc)
Edition:
1st American ed.
Description:
488 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes:
"Originally published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing, Great Britain, as Burning Man: The Ascent of
D
.H.
Lawrence
."
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 416-473) and index.
Contents:
Argument -- Inferno: England, 1915-1919 -- Purgatory: Italy, 1919-1922 -- America, 1922-1925.
Summary:
"An electrifying, revelatory new biography of
D
.
H
.
Lawrence
, with a focus on his difficult middle years. 'Never trust the teller,' wrote
D
.
H
.
Lawrence
, 'trust the tale.'Everyone who knew him told stories about
Lawrence
, and
Lawrence
told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and again: a pioneer of autofiction, no writer before
Lawrence
had made so permeable the border between life and literature. In Burning Man: The Trials of
D
.
H
.
Lawrence
, acclaimed biographer Frances Wilson tells a new story about the author, focusing on his decade of superhuman writing and travel between 1915, when The Rainbow was suppressed following an obscenity trial, and 1925, when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis. Taking after
Lawrence
's own literary model, Dante, and adopting the structure of The Divine Comedy, Burning Man is a distinctly Lawrentian book, one that pursues
Lawrence
around the globe and reflects his life of wild allegory. Eschewing the confines of traditional biography, it offers a triptych of lesser-known episodes drawn from lesser-known sources, including tales of
Lawrence
as told by his friends in letters, memoirs, and diaries. Focusing on three turning points in
Lawrence
's pilgrimage (his crises in Cornwall, Italy, and New Mexico) and three central adversaries -- his wife, Frieda; the writer Maurice Magnus; and his patron, Mabel Dodge Luhan -- Wilson uncovers a lesser-known
Lawrence
, both as a writer and as a man. Strikingly original, superbly researched, and always revelatory, Burning Man is a marvel of iconoclastic biography. With flair and focus, Wilson unleashes a distinct perspective on one of history's most beloved and infamous writers."--Publisher.
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