The Facts In The Case of E. A. Poe by Andrew Sinclair (.ePUB)
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The Facts in the Case of E. A. Poe by Andrew Sinclair
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Overview: ‘This is a rich and satisfying hybrid work – part fiction and part biography. Its hold on the reader stems, at least in part, from its use of one of the most successful of literary formulae: the quest. It was this structure which gave A.J.A. Symons’s The Quest for Corvo such hypnotic appeal…. Mr Sinclair’s insights, credited to Pons, are those of a distinguished novelist. He intuitively perceives the relationship between Poe’s life and work, anatomising it in witty and sometimes brilliant prose.’ – Paul Ableman, Spectator
‘Clever, macabre, spellbinding, The Facts in the Case of E. A. Poe is Andrew Sinclair’s brilliant combination of biography and fiction, taken to the limits of the united genre…. [T]he result is a strangely disturbing and powerfully revealing piece of literature, one Poe himself – if sober – might have genuinely approved.’ – Houston Post
‘[E]xtremely clever and enjoyable, and one that Poe might himself have appreciated. Mr. Sinclair’s dovetailing of Poe’s life and Pons’s reflections is so smoothly done, and his narrative touch so delicate, that those who know nothing of Poe’s sad story are likely to be held as firmly as those familiar with it…. The ghost of Poe can have inspired few more entertaining or ingenious books.’ – Julian Symons, New York Times
Genre: Non-Fiction > Biographies & Memoirs
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