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Title: Be with Me Always: Essays
Author: Randon Billings Noble
ISBN: 9781496205049
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 186
Publisher Description: "Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in <i>Wuthering Heights</i>. He wants to be haunted--he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands to knock at the window and to linger. <i>Be with Me Always</i> is a collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. <p/> In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted--by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts--in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable. <br>
Author: Randon Billings Noble
ISBN: 9781496205049
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 2019
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Number of Pages: 186
Publisher Description: "Be with me always--take any form--drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you!" Thus does Heathcliff beg his dead Cathy in <i>Wuthering Heights</i>. He wants to be haunted--he insists on it. Randon Billings Noble does too. Instead of exorcising the ghosts of her past, she hopes for their cold hands to knock at the window and to linger. <i>Be with Me Always</i> is a collection of essays that explore hauntedness by considering how the ghosts of our pasts cling to us. <p/> In a way, all good essays are about the things that haunt us until we have somehow embraced or understood them. Here, Noble considers the ways she has been haunted--by a near-death experience, the gaze of a nude model, thoughts of widowhood, Anne Boleyn's violent death, a book she can't stop reading, a past lover who shadows her thoughts--in essays both pleasant and bitter, traditional and lyrical, and persistently evocative and unforgettable. <br>
