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A Short Daring Life
W. W. Norton & Company
June 2010
On Sale: June 1, 2010
228 pages
ISBN: 0393338479
EAN: 9780393338478
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Non-Fiction Biography
“How long it’s taken for these two mad, bad and dangerous
writers to get together!”—Alan Cheuse, San Francisco
Chronicle Acclaimed biographer of James Joyce, Edna O’Brien
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 novelist’s understanding of tempo and characterization”
(Miami Herald), O’Brien captures the spirit of the man and
creates an indelible portrait that explodes the Romantic
myth. Byron, as brilliantly rendered by O’Brien, is the poet
as rebel, imaginative and lawless, and defiantly immortal. 8
pages of b/w illustrations
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