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Nightwood
Nightwood
Author: Djuna Barnes
The fiery and enigmatic masterpiece -- one of the greatest novels of the Modernist era. — Nightwood, Djuna Barnes' strange and sinuous tour de force, "belongs to that small class of books that somehow reflect a time or an epoch" (Times Literary Supplement). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel un...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780571056644
ISBN-10: 0571056644
Publication Date: 7/22/1985
Pages: 239
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Publisher: Faber & Faber
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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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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