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The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson: A Novel
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Author
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Jerome Charyn.
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Publisher
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Norton
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Format
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hardcover
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Product Dimensions
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9.5
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6.5
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1.05
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ISBN
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9780393068566
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Pages/Publication Date
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348/2010
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Daedalus Item Code
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21058
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This item is not available.
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Description
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"She was the first poet I had ever read, and I was hooked and hypnotized from the start," Jerome Charyn tells us in a note at the start of his vividly imagined life of Emily Dickinson. "I could hear the tick of her music in my wakefulness and in my sleep." Adopting Emily's voice, Charyn audaciously explores Dickinson's passionate inner world, from such inspirations as an encounter with a blond handyman at Mount Holyoke seminary to her rivalry with her sister-in-law Sue for her father Edward's attentions. "I had hoped that there was someone like Dickinson out there. My one regret, after finding her, was that I would never get to make her acquaintance. No doubt millions of others feel the same. It's for us that Jerome Charyn has written this book.... Within pages I had forgotten I was reading a book written by a man in the 21st century and had come to believe, with scarcely a hiccup, that I was hearing from Emily herself."—Globe and Mail (Toronto) "Impeccably researched, but also wonderfully re-imagined, The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson, by Jerome Charyn, takes an entertaining look at what might have been, or could have been, and allows readers to see behind the lace curtain of one of America's most-celebrated authors.... The result is plausible and satisfying."—A "Must-Read" Book for 2011, Massachusetts Center for the Book
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