Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence - Paperback

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Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence - Paperback

Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence - Paperback

by Frances Wilson
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Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize

An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years

"Never trust the teller," wrote D. H. Lawrence, "trust the tale." Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and again: a pioneer of autofiction, no writer before Lawrence had made so permeable the border between life and literature. In Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence, acclaimed biographer Frances Wilson tells a new story about the author, focusing on his decade of superhuman writing and travel between 1915, when The Rainbow was suppressed following an obscenity trial, and 1925, when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Taking after Lawrence's own literary model, Dante, and adopting the structure of The Divine Comedy, Burning Man is a distinctly Lawrentian book, one that pursues Lawrence around the globe and reflects his life of wild allegory. Eschewing the confines of traditional biography, it offers a triptych of lesser-known episodes drawn from lesser-known sources, including tales of Lawrence as told by his friends in letters, memoirs, and diaries. Focusing on three turning points in Lawrence's pilgrimage (his crises in Cornwall, Italy, and New Mexico) and three central adversaries--his wife, Frieda; the writer Maurice Magnus; and his patron, Mabel Dodge Luhan--Wilson uncovers a lesser-known Lawrence, both as a writer and as a man.

Strikingly original, superbly researched, and always revelatory, Burning Man is a marvel of iconoclastic biography. With flair and focus, Wilson unleashes a distinct perspective on one of history's most beloved and infamous writers.
ISBN9781250849076
Author Frances Wilson
PublisherPicador USA
GenreBiography and Literature
FormatPaperback
PublishedAugust 2022
LanguageENG- English
Pages512
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence

Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence - Paperback

Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence - Paperback

By Frances Wilson

About Frances Wilson

Frances Wilson is a critic, a journalist, and the author of several works of nonfiction, including How to Survive the Titanic; or, The Sinking of J. Bruce Ismay, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize for Historical Biography; Guilty Thing: A Life of Thomas De Quincey, which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize; and Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence, which won the Plutarch Award, was short-listed for the Duff Cooper Prize and the James Tait Black Award, and was long-listed for the Baillie Gifford Prize.

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