Margaret Fuller: A New American Life

ISBN-13: 9780544245617 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 496 str.

Megan Marshall

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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography"Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints." Boston GlobePulitzer Prize winner Megan Marshall recounts the trailblazing life of Margaret Fuller: Thoreau s first editor, Emerson s close friend, daring war correspondent, tragic heroine. After her untimely death in a shipwreck off Fire Island, the sense and passion of her life s work were eclipsed by scandal. Marshall s inspired narrative brings her back to indelible life.Whether detailing her front-page New-York Tribune editorials against poor conditions in the city s prisons and mental hospitals, or illuminating her late-in-life hunger for passionate experience including a secret affair with a young officer in the Roman Guard Marshall s biography gives the most thorough and compassionate view of an extraordinary woman. No biography of Fuller has made her ideas so alive or her life so moving. Megan Marshall s brilliant Margaret Fuller brings us as close as we are ever likely to get to this astonishing creature. She rushes out at us from her nineteenth century, always several steps ahead, inspiring, heartbreaking, magnificent. Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, author of Betraying Spinoza: The Renegade Jew Who Gave Us Modernity"Shaping her narrative like a novel, Marshall brings the reader as close as possible to Fuller s inner life and conveys the inspirational power she has achieved for several generations of women." New Republic"

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Boston Globe besteller "Fuller's was a great life, flush with drama, and Megan Marshall's new biography rises to it in ways small and large . . . This one pitches Ms. Marshall into the front rank of American biographers . . . Margaret Fuller' is as seductive as it is impressive. It has the grain and emotional amplitude of a serious novel, especially in its first half. It delivers a lovely and bumpy coming-of-age story, one of the best such stories 19th-century America has to offer. Now that the new season of 'Girls' is winding down, this book is an entertainment that ambitious and literate young women should turn their attention toward . . . In Ms. Marshall, Fuller has found what feels like her ideal biographer."- Dwight Garner, New York Times "Thoroughly absorbing, lively . . . Fuller, so misunderstood in life, richly deserves the nuanced, compassionate portrait Marshall paints."- Boston Globe "Fascinating, and well-researched . . should help to remedy Fuller's obscurity . . . It is Marshall's prescient reading of Fuller's life that makes this book worthy of its subject."- Daily Beast "[Marshall] inhabits Fuller's dramatic, oft-told story with unique intimacy by virtue of her fluency in and judicious quoting of Fuller's extraordinarily vivid letters . . . . A magnificent biography of a revolutionary thinker, witness, and writer."- Booklist STARRED review "A lively, intuitive study of a remarkable American character."- Kirkus Reviews "The book's success comes from the way that Marshall allows the reader to understand and empathize with Fuller in her plight."- Publishers Weekly