Product Details
Category - Fiction / Family & Relationships
Format - Hardcover
Condition - Excellent
Listed - 10 months ago
Est. Publication Date - Apr 2008
Seller Description
This is an imagined story set at the close of the Civil War. Renowned critic and author Christopher Benfrey maps a web of friendship, family, and romance among noted writers, poets, and artists (including Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Emily Dickinson) as a method to discover a unique moment in the development of American character.
Overview
A Summer of Hummingbirds: Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
ISBN: 9781594201608
Publisher Description
A surprising and scandalous story of how the interaction within a group of exceptional and uniquely talented characters shaped and changed American thought at the close of the Civil War. Benfey takes ...
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