The Bird of Night by Susan Hill
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Overview: Francis was mad, of that there could be no doubt. But he was also the greatest poet of his age. Now his life had become the common property of would-be biographers, of smooth and unctuous young men with tape recorders, searching for papers, probing for memories. Only Harvey Lawson, Francis’ devoted friend through the horrors and the lulls, could reveal the truth.
The Bird of Night is also Harvey’s story. A quiet and meticulous scholar, he emerges in Susan Hill’s narrative as a man of generous spirit and substantial strengths whose loyalty and love sustain Francis through long bouts of despair.
For Francis, the borderline between genius and madness was as narrow as a finely honed razor. There were the periods of intense creativity, as the lines of the great poem Janus coalesced on the page; of serenity, on the wind-swept beaches and marshes of a small fishing village, on the silent Dorset barrows, in out-of-season Venice; even of frantic gaiety at fashionable dinner parties and weekends. But there were also the moments of” savagery, of uncontrolled destruction, of childish petulance, of sheer tragic lunacy—the tuneless hammering of a piano, the violent changes of mood, the burning of exquisite poems.
Susan Hill has illuminated with passion this fight to the death between sanity and madness, between genius creative and genius annihilating. In her most am])itious and assured novel to date, she provides a stunning view of the nightmare of insanity and the gallant effort of an artist to succeed in spite of it
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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