The Raven's Bride (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780312567231)

When eight-year-old Virginia Sissy Clemm meets her handsome cousin, Eddy, she sees the perfect husband she's conjured up in childhood games. Thirteen years her elder, he's soft-spoken, brooding, and handsome. Eddy fails his way through West Point and the army yet each time he returns to Baltimore, their friendship grows. As Sissy trains for a musical career, her childhood crush turns to love. When she's thirteen, Eddy proposes. But as their happy life darkens, Sissy endures Poe's abrupt disappearances, self-destructive moods, and alcoholic binges. When she falls ill, his greatest fear- that he'll lose the woman he loves- drives him both madness, and to his greatest literary achievement.

Part ghost story, part love story, this provocative novel explores the mysterious, shocking relationship between Edgar Allan Poe and young Sissy Clemm, his cousin, muse and great love. Lenore Hart, author of Becky, imagines the beating heart of the woman who inspired American literature's most demonized literary figure- and who ultimately destroyed him.

Author: Lenore Hart
ISBN-10: 0312567235
ISBN-13: 9780312567231
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Language: English
Published: 02/15/2011
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2010 pg. 59
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2010
Booklist 02/01/2011 pg. 40