The wreckage of Eden
By: Norman Lock
Edition: First edition.
Series: The American novels
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
ISBN-13: 9781942658382
Subjects: Fiction; Military chaplains; American Women poets; History
Description: When U.S. Army chaplain Robert Winter first meets Emily Dickinson, he is fascinated by the brilliance of the strange girl immersed in her botany lessons. She will become his confidante, obsession, and muse over the years as he writes to her of his friendship with the aspiring politician Abraham Lincoln, his encounter with the young newspaperman Samuel Clemens, and his crisis of conscience concerning the radical abolitionist John Brown.