Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, "Secret Historian" is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the 20th century.
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Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, "Secret Historian" is a sensational reconstruction of one of the more extraordinary hidden lives of the 20th century.
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Fine in fine dust jacket. Glued binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 478 p. Audience: General/trade. First edition, first printing with full number line. A fine clean tight unmarked copy in equally fine unclipped dust jacket. A finalist for the National Book Award. An amazing biography of the outrageous and colorful life of Samuel Steward.
It took me three weeks, but I finally finished it. Mr. Spring's writing of an extremely flawed man was superb, but it left me rather creeped out by Sam Steward. I'd never heard of him before this book, and I really have no interest in reading the porn books he wrote. If Mr. Spring's descriptions of Steward were accurate, he was very immature, naive, and obsessed with sex to the point of losing all common sense. A very interesting read, but it left me feeling cold.