Through the Tempests Dark and Wild
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Through the Tempests Dark and Wild by Sharon Darrow
Haunting and deeply moving -- a beautifully illustrated, fictionalized account of a formative time in the life of the teenage girl who wrote our most enduring horror story.Long before Mary Shelley published her Gothic masterpiece, Frankenstein, in 1818, at the age of nineteen, she shared fireside ghost tales at the home of family friends in Scotland. It was there that the headstrong girl - orphaned by her mother, spurned by her stepmother, and sent away by her father - spent two of her happiest teenage years. The brooding Scottish landscape and warm family atmosphere so influenced the author's life and art that some believe her famous novel took root there. To illuminate this period in Mary Shelley's life, Sharon Darrow skillfully spins fiction from fact. Her words are masterfully matched by Angela Barrett's exquisite, atmospheric, authentically detailed illustrations. The result is a rich tapestry of stories within stories - those told, those written, and more extraordinary, those lived.
Sharon Darrow spent nearly 20 years on the faculty at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is an award-winning author of children's and young adult novels and poetry. Her poetry, short tales, interviews, and personal essays for adults have appeared in literary journals such as Rhino, Folio, Whetstone, ACM (Another Chicago Magazine), Columbia Poetry Review, Great River Review, Other Voices, The Writer's Chronicle, and the anthology In the Middle of the Middle West. Her most recent adult book is Worlds within Words: Writing and the Writing Life. The Darrow Lecture Series, which is named for her, takes place every year in Montpelier, Vermont, and features notable authors who have completed the MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults program.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780763608354 |
| ISBN 10 | 0763608351 |
| Title | Through the Tempests Dark and Wild |
| Author | Sharon Darrow |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Candlewick Press (MA) |
| Year published | 2003-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 40 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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