D. H. Lawrence
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Language
English
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Gertrude Morel is locked in a deeply unsatisfying marriage and invests her emotional energy in her children, especially her eldest son, William. When tragedy strikes, and the focus of Gertrude's life shifts, history threatens to repeat itself as another of her sons is torn between maternal love and the desire to strike out into the world. Lawrence's largely autobiographical masterpiece is an emotional cauldron dealing with passion, fulfilment and...
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"You could describe D.H. Lawrence as the great multi-instrumentalist among the great writers of the twentieth century. He was a brilliant, endlessly controversial novelist who transformed, for better and for worse, the way we write about sex and emotions; he was a wonderful poet; he was an essayist of burning curiosity, expansive lyricism, odd humor, and radical intelligence, equaled, perhaps, only by Virginia Woolf. Here Geoff Dyer, one of the finest...