Lorca: A Dream of Life

With a rare blend of grace, warmth, & scholarship, Leslie Stainton raises the stakes of our appreciation for the greatest of Spain's modern poets, Federico Garcia Lorca. Drawing on fourteen years of research; more than a hundred letters unknown to prior biographers; exclusive interviews with Lorca's friends, family, & acquaintances; & dozens of newly discovered archival material, Stainton has brought her subject to life as few writers can. She describes his carefree childhood in rural Andalusia; his residencies in Madrid & Granada, then in New York, Havana, & Buenos Aires; his potent interaction with other Spanish artists, such as Salvador Dali, Luis Bunuel, & the composer Manuel de Falla; and, finally, Stainton shows how Lorca's marginal political activity during the Spanish Civil War still cost him his life. Throughout, Stainton meticulously but unobtrusively relates the oeuvre to the life. Her biography is quickly becoming the standard one-volume work on the poet.Leslie Stainton is the author of 'Lorca: A Dream of Life' with ISBN 9780374527020 and ISBN 0374527024.