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October 2015
On Sale: October 13, 2015
Featuring: Isabel V. Lyon; Ralph Ashcroft; Mark Twain
ISBN: 1476758964 EAN: 9781476758961 Kindle: B00UDCNJ44 Hardcover / e-Book Add to Wish List
From the bestselling and highly acclaimed author of the
“page-turning tale” (Library Journal, starred review) Mrs.
Poe comes a fictionalized imagining of the personal life of
America’s most iconic writer: Mark Twain.
In March of 1909, Mark Twain cheerfully blessed the wedding
of his private secretary, Isabel V. Lyon, and his business
manager, Ralph Ashcroft. One month later, he fired both. He
proceeded to write a ferocious 429-page rant about the pair,
calling Isabel “a liar, a forger, a thief, a hypocrite, a
drunkard, a sneak, a humbug, a traitor, a conspirator, a
filthy-minded and salacious slut pining for seduction.”
Twain and his daughter, Clara Clemens, then slandered Isabel
in the newspapers, erasing her nearly seven years of devoted
service to their family. How did Lyon go from being the
beloved secretary who ran Twain’s life to a woman he was
determined to destroy?
In Twain’s End, Lynn Cullen reimagines the tangled
relationships between Twain, Lyon, and Ashcroft, as well as
the little-known love triangle between Helen Keller, her
teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and Anne’s husband, John Macy,
which comes to light during their visit to Twain’s
Connecticut home in 1909. Add to the party a furious Clara
Clemens, smarting from her own failed love affair, and
carefully kept veneers shatter.
Based on Isabel Lyon’s extant diary, Twain’s writings and
letters, and events in Twain’s boyhood that may have altered
his ability to love, Twain’s End explores this real-life
tale of doomed love.
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