The Broken Tower: A Life of Hart Crane - Hardcover

Mariani, Paul

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ISBN 10: 0393047261 ISBN 13: 9780393047264

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co., 2000

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"[Paul Mariani] has made more sense of Crane's mess of a life than any previous biographer...[He] unpicks his threads with a scholar's attention to detail and the passion of a poet." -- The Economist

Synopsis:

"The Broken Tower" reads with all the drama of a psychological novel and the inexorable force of a Greek tragedy. Hart Crane made a meteoric rise in the late 1920s and then as suddenly burnt out, killing himself at the age of 32, and thus turned his life and poetry into the stuff of myth. A mid-Westerner, Crane came to New York to play a central part in the contemporary avant-garde literary world and also became part of the New York gay scene. This biography of Crane includes major new discoveries about his life. The author probes Crane's inner demons, promiscuous sexual life, alcoholism and self-destructive behaviour to give us a profound portrait of a complex, haunted and brilliant life.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Co.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0393047261
• ISBN 13: 9780393047264
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 512