Behind Every Great Man by Marlene Wagman-Geller

Author:Marlene Wagman-Geller
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sourcebooks
Published: 2015-05-23T16:00:00+00:00

In the early 1960s, two back-to-back tragedies knocked on the door whose patio looked out on the world-famous sign. The first occurred when Ginny left for a weekend and Laura and Huxley were at her home feeding her cat Edgarallancat. Laura soon became aware of scorching heat from the canyon and became immobilized when she realized both the Pfeiffer home and her own would imminently be engulfed in flames. She lost precious moments in shock; Hemingway letters and all other contents were consumed in the fire. She roused herself to hurry home where she salvaged her hundreds-year-old violin and a cherished Chinese dancing lady of the Tang Dynasty—the companion piece was destroyed in Ginny’s home. The Huxleys were to rebuild a white airy home close to their original; in a nod to “if the walls could talk,” the home is currently the residence of actor Channing Tatum.

Two years later, Huxley, in the last stages of cancer, passed away on November 22, 1963, the same day as fellow British writer C. S. Lewis. However, their deaths were overshadowed by the assassination of President Kennedy. Huxley’s last request was for Laura to inject him with a final dose of LSD. As she kept her bedside vigil, she took from the wall a Rembrandt reproduction of a man astride his horse, Huxley’s wishful alter ego who embodied a life of adventure and daring. Showing it to her dying husband was Laura’s message he had lived a life, in its fashion, as daring as The Polish Rider.

Download

Copyright Disclaimer:
This site does not store any files on its server. We only index and link to content provided by other sites. Please contact the content providers to delete copyright contents if any and email us, we'll remove relevant links or contents immediately.