Wainewright the Poisoner: the Memoir of Thomas Griffiths Wainewright-Regency Author, Painter, Swindler, and Probable Murderer-Brilliantly Woven
- List Price: $26.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
- Publish date: 01/01/2003
Faced with unbridgeable gaps in the historical record, Andrew Motion has taken the bold and brilliant step of bringing this odd personality back to life by creating an imaginary autobiographical memoir for him, in his own voice. The document is convincing and deeply moving, by turns evasive and revelatory. Motion's accompanying detailed notes and commentary explain and enhance Wainewright's words -- and sometimes contradict them.
The result is no less than a new kind of biography, complex and multi-layered and intensely readable, with much to say about the Romantic fascination with the darker side of human nature, about crime, and about the art of biography itself. And of course about Thomas Griffiths Wainewright, who emerges from this book an even stranger and more memorable character than anyone suspected.
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