Bibliograph

Destiny, Tim Parks

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Destiny, Tim Parks

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

Destiny

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Tim Parks

Summary

It's the summer of 1851. Herman Melville is finishing Moby Dick on his family farm in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, surrounded by his mother, sisters, and pregnant wife. It's a calm and productive season until Herman's neighbor, Nathaniel Hawthorne, lures him to Amherst. There they meet chaste, twenty-year-old Emily Dickinson and her brother, Austin. On a whim, the two distinguished authors invite the Dickinson siblings to accompany them on a trip to Boston and New York. It's here that they cross paths with journalist Walt Whitman and runaway slave, William Johnson. And it's here that Emily and Herman-bold maiden and married man-both flushed with the excitement of new adventures, fall uncontrollably in love. Beautifully capturing the heady longings of puritan life, moral quandaries, philosophical quests, and social change of mid-nineteenth century America, Emily and Herman is a love story for all time

Target audience

adult

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