The Boston Globe, January 22nd, 2006
His great-grandfather, grandfather, and father, crags all of them, built great lighthouses girdling Scotland's stormy and treacherous coast. Of himself, the sickly, stick-thin Robert Louis Stevenson (109 pounds) wrote: "But the marrow of the family was worked out and he declined into the man of letters." Fiery dedication and scattery self-doubt, white-hot bursts of industry and a distracted drifting: This is part of the divided self that Claire Harman locates and titles in "Myself and the Other Fellow." Her knowledgeable, vastly detailed biography of a will-o'- the-wisp subject can suggest a m...
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