Born to be posthumous : the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey
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Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Physical Desc
viii, 503 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Status
Bandon Public Library - Adult/General - Nonfiction
921 GOREY, EDWARD Dery
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Published
New York : Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
Format
Book
Language
English
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Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-484) and index.
Description
"The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny, deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in countless ways, from Tim Burton's movies to Anna Sui's fashion to Neil Gaiman's Coraline to Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events. Some call him the Grandfather of Goth (which would've given him the fantods). Just who was this man, who lived with six cats, owned more than 20,000 books, roomed with the poet Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and liked to traipse around in floor-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a solitary, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes -- but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T. S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, and John Bellairs (most notably The House with a Clock in Its Walls), among others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and secretive man, a reclusive master whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting, the darkly amusing, and... other things. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with Goreyphiles as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, Edmund White, and Anna Sui, Born to Be Posthumous draws back the curtain on this mysterious genius and his eccentric life." --
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dery, M. (2018). Born to be posthumous: the eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey . Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dery, Mark, 1959-. 2018. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey. Little, Brown and Company.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dery, Mark, 1959-. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dery, Mark. Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey Little, Brown and Company, 2018.
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