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ISBN
9780008329846
Publication Year
2020
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Born to Be Posthumous: the Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Item Height
198mm
Author
Mark Dery
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
440g
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known - in the late 1940s, no less - to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes - but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.

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HarperCollins
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9780008329846
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Book Title
Born to Be Posthumous: the Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Author
Mark Dery
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2020
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
440g

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Mark Dery
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United Kingdom

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  • A very strange man

    The Gashleycrumb Tinies is my favourite Gorey masterpiece and should be read by everyone. The picture of Neville who died of ennui is haunting and the tragic ends of all the other children never fail to delight. Mark Dery is excellent at writing about the strange life of Gorey and I strongly recommend his book.

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