Poe

Jordi Sierra i Fabra



Alberto Vázquez (illustrations)

«Some days they were forced to eat bread and molasses. There was nothing else. Maria Clemm did needlework. Virigina was too weak. They often went cold rather than use fuel for the stove; but they could not scrimp on whale oil or petrol for the lamp, because in the dark it was impossible to write.»

In these pages, Edgar Allan Poe’s life is given its human dimension, that of a writer whose genius must struggle against adversity. Scandal, misery, death, madness and, throughout it all, the forging of a sublime body of work, fill the days and nights of a creative visionary, one who was marked by tragedy.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra, winner of the National Prize for Young People’s and Children’s literature, has succeeded in creating a vivid portrait of Poe and his work, which Alberto Vázquez has endowed with extraordinary images.

Jordi Sierra i Fabra was nominated for Hans Christian Andersen Award 2010

160 x 140 mm; 58 pp. Paperback