George Fetherling author of Walt Whitman's Secret
A book trailer for Walt Whitman's Secret. In this wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one entirely. It's a political secret, one that the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century has pledged himself to keep until he is on his deathbed.
A book trailer for Walt Whitman's Secret. In this wonderfully imagined novel, Walt Whitman's secret isn't his homosexuality but another one entirely. It's a political secret, one that the greatest American poet of the nineteenth century has pledged himself to keep until he is on his deathbed.
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Hardcover | 368 pages | Fiction
Random House Canada | 978-0-679-31223-9
April 6, 2010
$32.00
As compelling and revelatory as Colm Toibin's The Master, Walt Whitman's Secret mines the life of the most influential poet in the American canon for insights about creativity, relations between the sexes and the dangers of excessive patriotism.
