The Death of a Greek Lover - Paperback
by David Plante
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Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9798896230243UPC:9798896230243Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:7.06 x 5.38 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.1896Product ID:SCEA2SKCBQ
The Death of a Greek Lover
A landmark work dedicated to the author's partner, this set of linked poems explores love and loss through the lens of myth, faith, and art. Heavily influenced by the work of C. P. Cavafy, Plante's paen to his beloved will stay with readers long after the last verse. In 1965, the novelist David Plante met the poet and editor Nikos Stangos, with whom he lived until Stangos's death in 2004. Over...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New York Review of BooksISBN-13:9798896230243UPC:9798896230243Book Category:PoetryBook Subcategory:American, LGBTQ+, Subjects & ThemesBook Topic:Death, Grief, LossSize:7.06 x 5.38 x 0.31 inchesWeight:0.1896Product ID:SCEA2SKCBQ
David Plante was born in 1940 and made his name as a novelist with The Ghost of Henry James (1970) and a dozen other novels, including the Francoeur Trilogy (1978-1982), a story of the complex relations within a family and between the family's French Canadian culture and the anglophone New England world around them. He then made his name as a memoirist with Difficult Women (1983; available as an...
Publisher: New York Review of Books
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