Burning Man: The Ascent of DH Lawrence (Hardback)

'A brilliantly unconventional biography, passionately researched and written with a wild, playful energy.  A new Lawrence emerges: a thinker, travel writer and essayist of strange, absurd, irrepressible genius' - Richard Holmes

'Dare we hope that Lawrence might soon assume his rightful place - neither messiah nor pariah - as a writer of boundless freshness, originality and breadth? If so Frances Wilson's stimulating and utterly enthralling book will be seen to play a vital role in the long-awaited rehabilitation of the man who, in the words of poet Tony Hoagland, "burned like an acetylene torch/ from one end to the other of his life' - Geoff Dyer

'"How can biography do justice to Lawrence's complexities?" asks this book. Frances Wilson shows us exactly how. Hers is the most original voice in life-writing today' - Lucasta Miller, author of Keats

'No biography of Lawrence that I have read comes close to Burning Man in getting across both his unquenchable fire and his appalling ruthlessness. After reading almost every page, you think "what a monster!" but then at the same time "what an eye!" - for people, landscape, birds, the whole world really. It's a wonderful book' - Ferdinand Mount