The Raven's Bride
In her fascinating new novel, The Raven’s Bride, Lenore Hart explores the question, “Does love end at death, or does it live on – somehow, somewhere?” Virginia Clemm, wife and muse of Edgar Allan Poe, is the narrator of The Raven’s Bride, which tells the story of how she came, so young, to marry her much older, famous cousin—and why, after her death, she is not free to leave him and move on. The doomed love story of Edgar Allen Poe and his so-called “child-wife” is beautifully penned in this novel that is part literary tale, part historical novel, part ghost story and part romance. Though she is only half his age when they wed, Virginia is mature and emotionally stable, offering the reassurance Poe needs to make up for all the loss and betrayal in his tragic early years. A poet in her own right, Virginia’s calming influence draws her husband out of his self-destructive drunken stupors and helps him to again become the discriminating critic and prolific artist, until the next time he stumbles out of a bar. From her self-imposed purgatory on the other side, Virginia sees Edgar slowly descend into madness and realizes that she is the only one who can save her husband’s soul.
Named for the poem “Lenore,” Hart was raised reading Poe. She currently teaches in the graduate writing program at Wilkes University in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania. She lives with her novelist husband David Poyer and daughter Naia and enjoys gardening, beach-combing and antique-hunting.
http://www.lenorehart.com/bio.html
The Savannah Book Festival is a non-profit organization that hosts an annual, weekend-long festival of the written and spoken word, February 18-20, 2011. It remains free and open to the public at Telfair Square, in the Historic District of Savannah, Ga.
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