Mary Maclane

I Await the Devil's Coming (eBook, ePUB)

The Story of Mary MacLane

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Published in 1902 when the author was not yet twenty years old, Mary MacLane's searingly frank memoir is so far ahead of its time that it may shock even current-day readers. Indeed, the original title I Await the Devil's Coming (referring to MacLane's oft-expressed infatuation with Satan himself) was deemed too racy, and subsequent editions were published under the considerably tamer title The Story of Mary MacLane. No matter what you call it, it's a compelling, indelible read that will stick with you long after you've read the last sentence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: The Floating Press
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781776535675
• Artikelnr.: 41006121

Autorenporträt

"Anyone who reads her will never forget her voice." - Biographile "Mary MacLane comes off the page quivering with life. Moving." - London Times "She reminds us of the power of personal narrative, honestly told." - The Atlantic "In a pre-soundbite age she already knew how to draw blood in one direct sentence." - The Awl "She had a short but fiery life of writing and misadventure, and her writing was a template for the confessional memoirs that have become ubiquitous." - The New Yorker "One of the most fascinatingly self-involved personalities of the 20th century." - The Age "Confessional journalists have people like Mary Mac-Lane to thank." - Flavorwire "Her diaries ignited a national uproar, ushering in a new era for women's voices. Her elegant, ambitious embrace of full-disclosure opened a door to what was possible for women." - The Atlantic "Fiery frankness made her a pioneer." - Time Out Chicago "Her poetry is one of extremes: lust for happiness, despair for life." - Hairy Dog Review "Riveting." - New Hampshire Public Radio "I Await the Devil's Coming is a small masterpiece, full of camp and swagger." - Parul Sehgal, NPR "First of the self-expressionists, and the first of the Flappers." - Chicagoan "This book is the heart cry of youth not yet at home in the world. Where, since Emily Brontë, can we find this lightning-like intuition, and this special kind of simple, vivid, flashing English - direct, rhythmic, beautiful?" - Harriet Monroe "Little short of a miracle. No more marvelous book was ever born out of a sensitive, precocious brain." - Clarence Darrow "She senses the infinite resilience, the drunken exuberance, the magnificent power and delicacy of the language." - H.L. Mencken "A girl wonder." - Harper's (two-page exclusive spread) "A pioneering feminist - a sensation." - Feminist Bookstore News "From now on must take a prominent place in any discussions of American women's writing and the literature of the West." - Dr Peter Donahue, Oklahoma State University - "A pioneering newswoman and later a silent-screen star, considered the veritable spirit of the iconoclastic Twenties, 'the Joan of Arc of the Red-Hot Mamas.' 'How did it happen, ' declared one of her eulogists, 'that a revolution in manners started, or seemed to start, with an unruly young woman who couldn't bear the sight of the toothbrushes hanging up in the family bathroom at Butte, Montana?'" - Robert Taylor, Chief Critic, Boston Globe