{"product_id":"stephen-crane-a-life-of-fire-9780674049536","title":"Stephen Crane: A Life of Fire","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith the exception of Poe, no American writer has proven as challenging to biographers as the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Red Badge of Courage\u003c\/i\u003e. Stephen Crane's short, compact life--\"a life of fire,\" he called it--continues to be surrounded by myths and half-truths, distortions and outright fabrications. Mindful of the pitfalls that have marred previous biographies, Paul Sorrentino has sifted through garbled chronologies and contradictory eyewitness accounts, scoured the archives, and followed in Crane's footsteps. The result is the most complete and accurate account of the poet and novelist written to date. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhether Crane was dressing as a hobo to document the life of the homeless in the Bowery, defending a prostitute against corrupt New York City law enforcement, or covering the historic charge up the San Juan hills as a correspondent during the Spanish-American War, his adventures were front-page news. From Sorrentino's layered narrative of the various phases of Crane's life a portrait slowly emerges. By turns taciturn and garrulous, confident and insecure, romantic and cynical, Crane was a man of irresolvable contradictions. He rebelled against tradition yet was proud of his family heritage; he lived a Bohemian existence yet was drawn to social status; he romanticized women yet obsessively sought out prostitutes; he spurned a God he saw as remote yet wished for His presence. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIncorporating decades of research by the foremost authority on Crane's work, \u003ci\u003eStephen Crane: A Life of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e sets a new benchmark for biographers.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Belknap Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/05\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674049536\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 520\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.96h x 6.27w x 1.47d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2014\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2014 pg. 74\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/15\/2014 pg. 92\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/30\/2014 pg. 70\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 08\/03\/2014 pg. 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/01\/2014 pg. 613\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Paul Sorrentino","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45211579515061,"sku":"9780674049536","price":33.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/files\/img_66bd8ee0-ce2c-4c36-bf03-82d978bf621a.jpg?v=1742913330","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/stephen-crane-a-life-of-fire-9780674049536","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}