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Lord Byron's Doctor

Lord Byron's Doctor

by PaulWest (Author)

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    Paperback 1992

    $3.28
Synopsis

Lord Byron's Doctor is one Polidori, the travelling companion, confidante and unwilling chronicler of George Gordon, Lord Byron. It is the year 1816 and Byron, driven out of England by scandalous allegations of incest with his sister, undertakes a debauched European Grande Tour to meet up with the Percy and Mary Shelly in Geneva. From austere Dutch towns to the mountains of Switzerland, the poet's most obsessive thoughts are faithfully recorderd by the awed and repulsed Polidori. Paul West's literary and historical invention of the obscure Italian doctor produces a carnal, extravangant story of Gothic depravity, of poetic genius and the sometimes diabolical personality behind it.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 288
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 15 Apr 1992
ISBN 10: 185242253X
ISBN 13: 9781852422530

Media Reviews
A grand tour sparked by an irresistible force. Time A powerful, book, a disturbing and memorable evocation of the pernicious consequences that Byronism could have...Mr. West imagines a complex character roiling with envy, spite, fury, and, most of all, the desire to be Lord Byron... The New York Times A wholly successful recreation of that crucial year in literary history when Romantic yearnings confronted the darker recesses of the unconscious, wreaking havoc in the personal lives of their creators, but also giving birth to poetry and monsters that haunt us still. The Review of Contemporary Fiction