Disaster Was My God: A Novel of the Outlaw Life of Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud burst onto the literary scene in 1871 with a startling new voice, transforming himself from an anonymous country boy into the sensation of Paris. His explosive life included a passionate affair with the older (and married) poet Paul Verlaine, and a prosperous career as a trader and arms dealer in Ethiopia. A cancerous leg forced him to return to France, where he died at the age of thirty-seven.

Bruce Duffy takes these astonishing facts and brings them to vivid life in a story...