The Book of Repulsive Women and Other Poems by Djuna Barnes, Rebecca Loncraine (Editor)
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- Pub. Date: May 2006
- 84pp
- Sales Rank: 498,105
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Product Details
- Pub. Date: May 2006
- Publisher: Carcanet Press, Limited
- Format: Paperback, 84pp
- Sales Rank: 498,105
- Series: Fyfield Books
- ISBN-13: 9781857547078
- ISBN: 1857547071
- Edition Description: New
Synopsis
Published together for the first time, this collection features work from 1914 to the 1970s—many pieces first appearing in pamphlets and literary journals in New York and Paris—including illustrations by the author.
Biography
Djuna Barnes was born in Great Britain and moved to New York in 1911, where she briefly studied at the Pratt Institute of Art. In the 1920s she moved to Paris, where she lived and worked amongst the literary-expatriate community until she moved back to New York. She is the author of The Antiphon, Ladies Almanack, Nightwood, and Ryder. Rebecca Loncraine is a former research fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of Oxford.
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