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Born To Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
By Dery, Mark
- ISBN
- 9780316188548 9780316451079
- Publisher
- Little, Brown
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Library Journal
Reviewed on November 1, 2018 | Arts {amp}amp; Humanities
In this biography, cultural critic Dery (Flame Wars;{amp}nbsp;Escape Velocity) portrays writer/artist Edward Gorey (1925{amp}ndash;2000) as convivial and chatty but also uninterested in allowing most people to get to know him. Dery doesn't go very far beyond Gorey's outer layer, nor does he seem to have a particularly deep or passionate knowledge of his subject's works, devoting many pages to...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
