Jeffrey Meyers, the author of highly acclaimed biographies of Hemingway and George Orwell, offers this masterly work on British novelist D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930). Meyers' fresh insights into Lawrence's life illuminate Lawrence's working-class childhood, his tempestuous marriage, and his death in France after the scandalous publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover, revealing Lawrence's complex method of intermingling autobiography and fiction. Through intensive research and access to unpublished essays and letters of Lawrence and his circle, Meyers describes the circumstances of his mother's death, the reason for the suppression of The Rainbow, and the author's protean (and extreme) sexuality that mirrored that of his fiction.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Cooper Square Press
Published: 09/09/2002
ISBN: 9780815412304
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.40lbs
Size: 8.94h x 6.04w x 1.01d

Review Citations: New York Review of Books 09/25/2003 pg. 72