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The Raven's Bride: A Novel - Lenore Hart
The Raven's Bride: A Novel
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When eight-year-old Virginia "Sissy" Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her elder, he's soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy fails his way through West Point and the army yet each time he returns to... show more
When eight-year-old Virginia "Sissy" Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her elder, he's soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy fails his way through West Point and the army yet each time he returns to Baltimore, their friendship grows. As Sissy trains for a musical career, her childhood crush turns to love. When she's thirteen, Eddy proposes. But as their happy life darkens, Sissy endures Poe's abrupt disappearances, self-destructive moods, and alcoholic binges. When she falls ill, his greatest fear– that he’ll lose the woman he loves– drives him both madness, and to his greatest literary achievement. Part ghost story, part love story, this provocative novel explores the mysterious, shocking relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and young Sissy Clemm, his cousin, muse and great love. Lenore Hart, author of Becky, imagines the beating heart of the woman who inspired American literature's most demonized literary figure– and who ultimately destroyed him.  
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Format: paperback
ASIN: B005X4DXRK
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
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3.0 The Raven's Bride: A Novel
NO SPOILERS!!!One need not be a Poe aficionado to enjoy this novel. Take note, it is a novel. Edgar Allen Poe married his cousin Virginia, nicknamed Sissy, when she was thirteen. He was thirteen years her elder. They met when she was eight. The setting is Baltimore, Richmond and New York, the time p...
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