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title by Christopher Benfey
A Summer of Hummingbirds:
Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson,
Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
At the close of the
Civil War, the United States took a deep breath to lick wounds and consider
the damage done. A Summer of Hummingbirds reveals how,
at that tender moment, the lives of some of our most noted writers, poets,
and artists-including Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe,
and Martin Johnson Heade-intersected to make sense of it all. Renowned
critic Christopher Benfey maps the intricate web of friendship, family,
and romance that connects these larger than life personalities to one another,
and in doing so discovers a unique moment in the development of American
character.
(Visit amazon.com to read the remainder of this book description.)
April 2008 release
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