Gallery Books
June 2016
On Sale: June 7, 2016
Featuring: Samuel Clemmons; Isabel Lyon
368 pages ISBN: 1476758972 EAN: 9781476758978 Kindle: B00UDCNJ44 Paperback / e-Book (reprint) 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 “cleverly spins a
mysterious, dark tale” (Booklist) about 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.
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