Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds, (Paperback)

from Cariola

If you're looking for a book about Emily Dickinson's life, this may not be it: she dies about halfway through, and the rest of the book focuses on the bickering over who should edit her works and letters, who owns the copyrights, who should get the royalties, who knew her best and is therefore en...

from Linda_22003

Who knew that a book about reclusive Emily Dickinson and her terribly proper New England family could be a potboiler, a bodice-ripper? Lyndall Gordon gives us a completely different Emily than the one we thought we knew, with her unsuspected, and ultimately unfulfilled, passions. Add to that her ...

from starbox

I knew next to nothing about Emily Dickinson, when I came across this fascinating-looking work in a charity shop! An extremely erudite and well-researched account (the author is a Senior Research Fellow at Oxford); the book takes us back to Emily Dickinson's young life, living in Amherst with her...

from missgreen

Lives Like Loaded Guns was an insigtful biography around Emily Dickinson and her family. It explores what happened to her estate and how her poems were eventually collated and published. It makes sense about a mysterious author who has seemed different, yet when you read this biography you realis...

from labwriter

I just finished the biog about Emily Dickinson by Lyndall Gordon, Lives Like Loaded Guns: Emily Dickinson and Her Family's Feuds. I'm calling this book "uneven" and giving it 4 stars. For whatever reason, the first half of the book seems to be better written, as if the two halves of the book were...