The Strange World of Willie Seabrook

Literary Nonfiction. This is an intimate, stunning look at the torturous relationship of two writers: Marjorie Worthington and William Seabrook. A renowned writer on the exotic and the occult, Seabrook was an extraordinary figure from the 1920s to the 1940s who traveled widely and introduced the concept of the zombie to Americans. In 1966, years after his death from suicide, Worthington, his second wife, cast her eye on their years together and the erosion of their relationship. Seabrook was a sadist, yet to Worthington he was also enthralling; he was an alcoholic, but she believed she could protect him. In brilliantly depicted moments of folie deux, we watch Worthington join Seabrook in his decline, and witness the shared claustrophobic, psychological breakdown that ensues.

Author: Marjorie Muir Worthington
Publisher: Spurl Editions
Published: 10/25/2017
Pages: 322
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.00w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781943679058

About the Author
Worthington, Marjorie Muir: - Marjorie Worthington (1900-1976) was an American novelist, short story writer, and biographer. She met the popular author and journalist William Seabrook in 1926, and they wrote and traveled together throughout Europe and Africa until their divorce in 1941. Marjorie Worthington's account of her life with Seabrook was her last major published work, which Kirkus Reviews described as an intense, self- questioning memoir.

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