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Stephen Crane - A Life of Fire (Hardcover)
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Stephen Crane - A Life of Fire (Hardcover)
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With the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as
challenging to biographers as the author of The Red Badge of
Courage. Stephen Crane's short, compact life-"a life of fire," he
called it-continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths,
distortions and outright fabrications. Mindful of the pitfalls that
have marred previous biographies, Paul Sorrentino has sifted
through garbled chronologies and contradictory eyewitness accounts,
scoured the archives, and followed in Crane's footsteps. The result
is the most complete and accurate account of the poet and novelist
written to date. Whether Crane was dressing as a hobo to document
the life of the homeless in the Bowery, defending a prostitute
against corrupt New York City law enforcement, or covering the
historic charge up the San Juan hills as a correspondent during the
Spanish-American War, his adventures were front-page news. From
Sorrentino's layered narrative of the various phases of Crane's
life a portrait slowly emerges. By turns garrulous and taciturn,
confident and insecure, romantic and cynical, Crane was a man of
irresolvable contradictions. He rebelled against tradition yet was
proud of his family heritage; he lived a Bohemian existence yet was
drawn to social status; he romanticized women yet obsessively
sought out prostitutes; he spurned a God he saw as remote yet
wished for His presence. Incorporating decades of research by the
foremost authority on Crane's work, Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire
sets a new benchmark for biographers.
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