The House of Hawthorne
by:
Erika Robuck (author)
From Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway’s Girl, comes a brilliant new novel about a literary couple. The unlikely marriage between Nathaniel Hawthorne, the celebrated novelist, and Sophia Peabody, the invalid artist, was a true union of passion and intellect.… Beset by crippling...
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From Erika Robuck, bestselling author of Hemingway’s Girl, comes a brilliant new novel about a literary couple. The unlikely marriage between Nathaniel Hawthorne, the celebrated novelist, and Sophia Peabody, the invalid artist, was a true union of passion and intellect.… Beset by crippling headaches from a young age and endowed with a talent for drawing, Sophia is discour
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780451418913 (0451418913)
Pages no: 416
Edition language: English
The House of Hawthorne by Erika Robuck is the fictionalized story of Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia Peabody Hawthorne. It is Sophia's story and her perspective on their almost thirty year relationship. The book is a love story but a very real one – the stuff of life not of fairy tales. For ...
By Erika Robuck ISBN: 0451418913 Publisher: NAL/Penguin Random Publication Date: 5/5/2015 Format: Other My Rating: 4 Stars A special thank you to Penguin First to Read for an ARC in exchange for an honest review. Erika Robuck, the "queen" of bringing historic literary characters of times pa...
I enjoyed this telling of the tale of the Hawthorne marriage, with its references to other famous American thinkers of the time, the culture of literature, and clear voice. It's a good story. But it's one that is a little too easy to summarize when you step away from it to get a good view of the w...
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