{"product_id":"footsteps-richard-holmes-9780679770046","title":"Footsteps: Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer","description":"Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France's Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of English morality and marriage. \u003ci\u003eFootsteps\u003c\/i\u003e is a wonderful exploration of the ties between biographers and their subjects, filled with passion and revelations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Deeply impressive . . . \u003ci\u003eFootsteps\u003c\/i\u003e is a singular event in the modern history of biography, and in itself a delightful reading experience.\"--Alfred Kazin \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This exhilarating book, part biography, part autobiography, shows the biographer as sleuth and huntsman, tracking his subjects through space and time.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe Observer\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A modern masterpiece . . .  Holmes is] the most romantic of contemporary biographers and probably the most revolutionary in spirit and form.\"--Michael Holroyd, author of \u003ci\u003eBernard Shaw\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard Holmes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0679770046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780679770046\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.84lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.54w x 0.73d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/26\/1996 pg. 20","brand":"Richard Holmes","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981091012863,"sku":"9780679770046","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_965e820e-4d8a-4378-b2c4-00b35e46905a.jpg?v=1683253607","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/footsteps-richard-holmes-9780679770046","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}