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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" (TLS). That time is the period between the two World Wars, and Barnes' novel unfolds in the deca...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780811216715
ISBN-10: 0811216713
Publication Date: 9/26/2006
Pages: 208
Edition: New Ed
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4.1 stars, based on 4 ratings
Publisher: New Directions
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 7
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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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