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Search      Gerry Adams   Ken Bruen   Paul Charles   Walter Macken   Manchán Magan   John Maher   Sam Millar   Alice Taylor Douglas A. Martin   Branwell   Format: Paperback original   Category: Fiction   ISBN: 0 86322 363 X   Publication Date: Available   Description “A tender, tragic portrayal of a doomed artist.” Publishers Weekly A brilliant re-imagination of the troubled and talented Brontë family, Branwell will forever change the way we see them. Sylistically complex and emotionally evocative, suggesting Branwell was sexually ambivalent. “Fame, skill, knowledge, they ravish us all,” writes Douglas Martin in this lyrical novel of dreams and disappointment. Branwell Brontë is the fourth of six children, and only brother to the three sisters who will go on to shape the modern English novel. It is in Branwell, however, that all hope for the family’s future is first invested – all hope for distinction in the name of Brontë. He is to be a writer. Or a painter. He is to make his way through art. In the end, of course, it won’t be this favoured son turned libertine who brings fame to his family. “Martin avoids the temptation of plunging headfirst into the gothic, instead conveying Branwell’s psychic turmoil in simple, stripped-down sentences... [He] sparsely fills in the outlines of Branwell’s dissolution, a suitably phantom account of the man who painted himself out of his own family portrait.” Village Voice Douglas A. Martin, born in Virginia in 1973 and raised in Georgia, is a novelist and poet. He is also the author of a collection of stories, They Change the Subject. Previous novel, Outline of My Lover, published by Picador in 2002 and named International Book of the Year by Colm Toibin in TLS. Author Douglas A. Martin, born in Virginia in 1973 and raised in Georgia, is a novelist and poet. He is also the author of a collection of stories, They Change the Subject. Previous novel, Outline of My Lover, published by Picador in 2002 and named International Book of the Year by Colm Toibin in TLS.