Poe, or the Revenant

ISBN: 1480116939

Author: Bigsby, Christopher

Condition: New

Product Description What if Edgar Allan Poe did not die, drunk on election day? What if he did not die at all? What if his planned escape from a life that oppressed him led him on a journey not only across an ocean but into the heart of darkness as he encountered those anxious to enroll him in their brotherhood? Christopher Bigsby takes a man renowned for his gothic tales, in which the buried return, and makes Poe himself the target of those with a taste for blood who are prepared to follow him until they judge him ready to join them. Poe, or the Revenant is a story worthy of Poe himself and who is to know where truth ends and invention begins? About the Author Christopher Bigsby is the author of the award-winning HESTER, a novel about the early life of Hawthorne's Hester Prynne, and of the American Library Association Notable Book, BEAUTIFUL DREAMER. He is also author of an award-winning biography of Arthur Miller.