Be with Me Always: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496205049)

"Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in Wuthering Heights. He wants to be haunted--he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands to knock at the window and to linger. Be with Me Always is a collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us.

In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted--by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts--in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable.


Author: Randon Billings Noble
ISBN-10: 1496205049
ISBN-13: 9781496205049
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 03/01/2019
Pages: 186
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.53lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.43d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2019