by Lyndall Gordon · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9781844084548
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«Lives Like Loaded Guns» is the biography of Emily Dickinson by Lyndall Gordon, published by Little, Brown Book Group Limited in paperback (512 pages).
Lyndall Gordon presents Emily Dickinson not as the fragile, passive recluse of myth, but as an intense personality sure of her talent, determined to live on her own terms. The book reconstructs family feuds around an adultery and a betrayal, the secret the poet kept, and the struggle over her legacy and poems after her death.
The full subtitle is «Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds»; the text is in English and this edition was published in 2011. The work was originally published in 2009.
For readers of literary biography and poetry history, especially those interested in Emily Dickinson and her era.
Lyndall Gordon is a British-based biographical and former academic writer, known for her literary biographies. She is a senior research fellow at St Hilda's College, Oxford.
