A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of Libbie Custer

Poolman, Jeremy

ISBN 10: 0747549494 / ISBN 13: 9780747549499

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2002

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine. Seller Inventory # CHL10039423

Bibliographic Details

Title: A Wounded Thing Must Hide: In Search of ...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Publication Date: 2002

Binding: hardcover

Condition: Used; Very Good

About this title

Synopsis:

Brilliant, bizarre, but not in any conventional sense a biography A Wounded Thing Must Hide is Jeremy Poolman's first, fiercely original foray into non-fiction. Haunted by the death of his own wife, Karen, the author follows Libbie Custer, the wife of General Custer, through her extraordinary life in search of he knows not what. He vividly recreates key scenes in Libbie's life - meeting the Empress Elizabeth of Austria, Tsar Alexander III and Henry James - and details the glorious, wayward career of the general himself, culminating in the slaughter at Little Big Horn. Through the tangibly real recreation of the historical events that are important to the narrator, the author of Skin gets under the skin, gets to the places other biographies can't reach. Perhaps through exploring a widow's determination to protect her husband's damaged reputation, he can find a way to deal with his own loss. Perhaps by exploring Libby's and Custer's enduring love he can find a form for his own. Here, obliquely, biography bleeds into autobiography.

About the Author:

Jeremy Poolman is the author of Interesting Facts About The State Of Arizona, Audacity's Song, My Kind Of America and Skin.