Publication

1995 - Viking, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

96,500 words, Guess

Page Count

386 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads896674
  • LibraryThing194915

Classifications

  • DDC818/.5209
  • LCCPS3503.A614 Z68 1995

Description

She was a familiar figure in Greenwich Village and Left Bank literary and lesbian circles during the teens, twenties, and thirties. Admired by her contemporaries for her wickedly incisive wit as well as for her great beauty and style, Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) consorted with the likes of Berenice Abbott, Ernst "Putzi" Hanfstaengl, Natalie Barney, Mina Loy, James Joyce, Peggy Guggenheim, Kay Boyle, Emily Coleman, Ezra Pound, and Dag Hammarskjold. T. S. Eliot, who was among her greatest admirers, sponsored the publication of Barnes's most famous work, the novel Nightwood. Yet even in her lifetime Djuna Barnes's fanatic privacy made her the most elusive of modern writers. At last, Joyce scholar Phillip Herring has written a sensitive and lively in-depth portrait of the woman Dylan Thomas considered one of our greatest female novelists.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Djuna: the life and work of Djuna BarnesViking1995-01-01

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