Mortal Love - Hardcover

Hand, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0061051705 ISBN 13: 9780061051708

Publisher: William Morrow & Co, 2004

Synopsis

In a tale that explores the link between creativity and madness, artists Algernon Swinburne and Dante Rossetti interact with a captivating woman who both inspires them and becomes an object of obsession. By the author of Black Light and Waking the Moon.

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Review:

"A literary page-turner.deeply pleasurable.Hand's lushly worded tale is consistently gripping. . A delightful waking dream." (Four stars) -- People

Elizabeth Hand is a writer whose vision, and whose writing into that extraordinary vision of hers, is exceptional --Bradford Morrow

I think she has written the best book of her generation. --Peter Straub

Don t turn the pages too fast if you can help it. --John Crowley

You don t so much read this novel as drink it down, like absinthe. --Kelly Link

Mortal Love is a wildly intelligent, dangerously sexy read. --Alisa Kwitney, author of Does She or Doesn't She?

A brilliant novel like Elizabeth Hand s recent Mortal Love deserves all the readers it can get. --Michael Dirda, Washington Post Book World

At once a painting in prose, an investigation into artistic obsession and a re-evaluation . Ambitious and richly imagined. --Washington Post Book World

The novel succeeds as both a thriller and a meditation on the mysterious nature of inspiration. --Village Voice

A wonderfully Gothic atmosphere, with lush visual imagery and rich poetic language. --Library Journal

About this edition

• Publisher: William Morrow & Co
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0061051705
• ISBN 13: 9780061051708
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364