Fall of Frost

The life of Robert Frost, brilliantly re-imagined by the author of the acclaimed "I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company" Called aa spellbinding prose stylista("Los Angeles Times"), Brian Hall drew extraordinary praise for his novel "I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company," in which he captured the personal lives of Lewis and Clark. Now he turns his talents to Robert Frost, arguably Americaas most famous poet. Through the revelatory voice of fiction, Hall gives us an artist toughened by tragedy, whose intimacy with death gave life to his poetryafor him, the preeminent symbol of manas form-giving power. This is the exquisitely rendered portrait of one manas rages, guilt, generosity, and defiant persistenceaas much a fictional masterwork as it is a meditation on greatness.