| Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Contributor(s): Wolff, Geoffrey (Author), Wolff, Geoffrey (Afterword by) |
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ISBN: 1590170660 ISBN-13: 9781590170663 Publisher: New York Review of Books
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2003 Annotation: "Includes an afterword by the author" Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. "Black Sun" is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art. Click for more in this series: New York Review Books Classics |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Editors, Journalists, Publishers |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2003013642 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.96" H x 5.16" W x 7.98" L (0.90 lbs) 416 pages |
| Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Price on Product |
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| Publisher Description: Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art. |
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