Book
Description
The Story of Mary MacLane shocked the
literary world when it was published in April 1902. It
sold 100,000 copies in its first month, an astonishing
number then and now. Within a few years it had been translated
into 36 languages, and writers such as Ernest Hemingway,
Hart Crane, and Gertrude Stein lauded it as an important
influence in their quests for a new American style.
The
author was a 19-year-old girl from the raw, masculine mining
town of Butte, Montana. With the publication of this book,
Mary MacLane became an overnight sensation. She was called
the ‘Wild Woman of Butte,’ a Bohemian, a radical,
a feminist, a rebel. Although MacLane went on to write other
books, none had the impact of this one, which remains a tour
de force about life, love, and longing. Fresh, frank, and
funny, ‘The Story of Mary MacLane’ is as powerful
today as it was provocative when first published.
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