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The Bird of Night

Susan Hill

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Francis Croft, the greatest poet of his age, was mad. His world was a nightmare of internal furies and haunting poetic vision. Harvey Lawson watched and protected him until his final suicide. From his solitary old age Harvey writes this brief account of their twenty years together and then burns all the papers to shut out an inquisitive world. The tautness and control that characterize Susan Hill's work are abundantly evident in *The Bird of Night* as she magnificently handles the heights and depths, the splendours and miseries of madness and friendship.

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Publisher
Hamish Hamilton
Year
1972
ISBN-13
9780241022580
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Madness and mental illnessFriendship and devotionArt and poetic genius

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