Lyndall Gordon at the London Literature Festival 2010 - TONIGHT!
July 6, 2010
Come hear Lyndall Gordon, author of new Emily Dickinson biography LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS discuss her book and the poet's life tonight at 7pm. This event will take place at the Southbank Centre as part of the London Literature Festival. For more information and to book tickets, please click here to visit the official website.LIVES LIKE LOADED GUNS was first published in the UK by Virago on the 4th of February 2010, and has kicked up quite a stir, garnering much praise from Dickinson scholars and fans alike:
'This book is unforcedly and powerfully original.'
-- Caroline Moore, 'Book of the Week', Sunday Telegraph
'This biography is not about taking sides, nor does it claim "truth" in any absolute way. Its questioning intelligence is a real pleasure and, as always with Gordon, the writing flows. It is a biography that compels without being sensational, quite a feat considering the material, with its twists, curves, lies, deliberate distortions and well-intentioned concealments.'
-- Jeanette Winterson, 'Book of the Week', The Times
'Gordon is a very measured biographer, not given to haphazard speculation, and her theory...does seem to hold water.'
-- Craig Brown, 'Book of the Week', Mail on Sunday
'Oxford professor Lyndall Gordon brings the advantage of distance and a fresh and tough-minded perspective to her fascinating study. Combining information from biographies and library archives, and paying careful attention to material that has been overlooked or overshadowed, Gordon also considers the afterlife of Dickinson's poetry. She offers clear and boldly original answers to the "unanswered questions" of Dickinson's life...[Gordon's] book, by clearing away much that is speculative, projected, or contentious about the life, will open the way for new approaches to the woman she calls "the poet next door".'
-- Elaine Showalter, 'Book of the Week', Guardian
'Lyndall Gordon has opened the way to an entirely new reading of Dickinson's life with this brilliant tale of turbulence both on and off the page, 'a situation as intricate as any in the novels of Henry James, where the greatest force lies in what is hidden'.'
-- Claire Harman, Literary Review