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Nightwood
Nightwood
Author: Djuna Barnes
Admired by T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Graham Greene, and Dylan Thomas, Djuna Barnes was the most influential and prolific female writer in Paris during the 1920s and 1930s. The Modern Library is proud to include--for the first time--her most critically acclaimed novel, Nightwood, which was praised by The Washington Post Book World as "a mas...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780811200059
ISBN-10: 0811200051
Publication Date: 6/1961
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3.4 stars, based on 13 ratings
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 3
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Insights into rotting humanity, unrequited love, the Night, and same-sex passions are recounted with slivers of wit and understanding that are buried in page after page of self-indulgent prose.This is a book you struggle through to say you have read it, but as you turn the pages you'll be greeted with very little joy.

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