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Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize

An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years

Never trust the teller, wrote D. H. Lawrence, trust the tale. Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and again: a pioneer of autofiction, no writer before Lawrence had made so permeable the border between life and literature. In Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence, acclaimed biographer Frances Wilson tells a new story about the author, focusing on his decade of superhuman writing and travel between 1915, when The Rainbow was suppressed following an obscenity trial, and 1925, when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Taking after Lawrence's own literary model, Dante, and adopting the structure of The Divine Comedy, Burning Man is a distinctly Lawrentian book, one

Burning Man

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      Publisher Picador USA
      Published 16 August 2022
      ISBN-13 9781250849076
      978-1250849076
      ISBN-10 1250849071

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize

      An electrifying, revelatory new biography of D. H. Lawrence, with a focus on his difficult middle years

      Never trust the teller, wrote D. H. Lawrence, trust the tale. Everyone who knew him told stories about Lawrence, and Lawrence told stories about everyone he knew. He also told stories about himself, again and again: a pioneer of autofiction, no writer before Lawrence had made so permeable the border between life and literature. In Burning Man: The Trials of D. H. Lawrence, acclaimed biographer Frances Wilson tells a new story about the author, focusing on his decade of superhuman writing and travel between 1915, when The Rainbow was suppressed following an obscenity trial, and 1925, when he was diagnosed with tuberculosis.

      Taking after Lawrence's own literary model, Dante, and adopting the structure of The Divine Comedy, Burning Man is a distinctly Lawrentian book, one

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