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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius

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ISBN
9780008329815
EAN
9780008329815
Publication Year
2018
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Book Title
Born to Be Posthumous: the Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Item Height
240mm
Author
Mark Dery
Publisher
HarperCollins
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
750 g
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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9780008329815
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Book Title
Born to Be Posthumous: the Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
Author
Mark Dery
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
512 Pages

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Item Height
240mm
Item Width
159mm
Item Weight
750 g

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Mark Dery
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United Kingdom

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