The Secret Life of Emliy Dickinson

“In his breathtaking high-wire act of ventriloquism, Jerome Charyn pulls off the nearly impossible: in THE SECRET LIFE OF EMILY DICKINSON he imagines an Emily Dickinson of mischievousness, brilliance, desire, and wit (all which she possessed) and then boldly sets her amid a throng of historical, fictional, and surprising characters just as hard to forget as she is. This is a bold book, but we’d expect no less of this amazing novelist.” —Brenda Wineapple, author of White Heat: The Friendshipof Emily Dickinson and ThomasWentworth Higginson [From the back cover.]