Byron in Love: A Short Daring Life

ISBN: 0393338479

Author: O'Brien, Edna

Condition: New

How long its taken for these two mad, bad and dangerous writers to get together!-Alan Cheuse, San Francisco Chronicle Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce, Edna OBrien has written a jaunty (The New Yorker) biography that suits her fiery and charismatic subject. She follows Byron from the dissipations of Regency London to the wilds of Albania and the Socratic pleasures of Greece and Turkey, culminating in his meteoric rise to fame at the age of twenty-four. With a novelists understanding of tempo and characterization (Miami Herald), OBrien captures the spirit of the man and creates an indelible portrait that explodes the Romantic myth. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by OBrien, is the poet as rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal. 8 pages of b/w illustrations