Paul Auster Burning Boy : The Life & Work of Stephen Crane Paperback Book

WINNER OF THE L.A. TIMES BOOK PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY Exhilarating. Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement Books of the YearSharpeyed and revealing. The New YorkerBrilliant . . . Remarkable. New York Journal of BooksStephen Crane produced an avalanche of sublime literature before he succumbed to tuberculosis at the age of twentyeight. Yet his short life was an eventful one from crushing poverty as a newcomer to Manhattan and his neardrowning in a shipwreck, to his stint as a war correspondent in Cuba and international fame at twentyfive, to his final years in England and friendships with Joseph Conrad and Henry James. In Burning Boy, celebrated novelist Paul Auster delves deeply into the story of Cranes tumultuous and dramatic life. | Paul Auster Burning Boy : The Life & Work of Stephen Crane Paperback Book