Novelist and memoirist Kathryn Harrison brings Joan of Arc to new life in a vital, exciting new biography, creating a multidimensional portrait of the saint from hundreds of years of portrayals in literature and film.
Ever since the Maid of Orleans led her people into battle, her story has been told and retold by great artists of every era, including William Shakespeare, Voltaire, Mark Twain, George Bernard Shaw, Bertolt Brecht, Robert Bresson, and Luc Besson. Kathryn Harrison’s Joan of Arc: A Life Transfigured gives us a Joan for our time—a shining exemplar of unshakable faith, extraordinary courage, and self-confidence on the battlefield, in the royal court, during a brutally rigged inquisition and imprinsonment, and in the face of her death. Deftly weaving historical fact, myth, folklore, scripture, artitistc representations, and centuries of scholarly and critical interpretation into a compelling narrative, Harrison revitalizes our sense of Joan as one of the greatest heroines in all of human history.
Story Locale:Â France
Publication History: Doubleday HC, Oct. ’14
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KATHRYN HARRISON has written the novels Thicker Than Water, Exposure, Poison, The Binding Chair, The Seal Wife, and Envy and Enchantments. Her autobiographical work includes The Kiss, Seeking Rapture, The Road to Santiago, and The Mother Knot. She has also written a biography, St. Therese of Lisieux, and a book of true crime, While They Slept: An Inquiry Into the Murder of a Family. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband, the novelist Colin Harrison, and their three children.
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