I Never Came to You in White

by Judith Farr

Book Overview

"The New Yorker" hailed this much-acclaimed novel as "peculiar, incandescent, astonishing". The novel about Emily Dickinson "provides an explanation more persuasive than any biography ever will"... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0395788404
• ISBN13: 9780395788400
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.3" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

A fun read

This is a very entertaining book, especially for fans of Emily's poetry. The prose is delicate and gripping, and many times I found myself actually believing that Emily had written these letters.I wouldn't use it is a source for an essay or research project, but if you enjoy Emily's poetry, I recommend giving this one a look.

Invigorating

Farr's epistolary novel about the life and passions of Emily Dickinson is a mesmerizing, inspiring, zesty read. Based on facts gleaned through letters and Dickinson's poetry, the story elaborates on Dickinson's 10-month school career, on her passions for women and for men, and on her final, ailing years. Like Cunningham's "The Hours" and Zackheim's "Violette's Embrace", it's a wonderful tribute to a woman whose true life is obscured by history. Farr's rendering of Dickinson's school year brought to mind Rosemary Manning's "The Chinese Garden" and Dorothy Strachey Bussy's "Olivia".