Nightwood

<b>Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic.</b><br><b></b><br><b>'<i>Nightwood</i> is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass ... From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.' </b>Jeanette Winterson<br><br><b>'Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves. What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' </b>Eileen Myles<br><br><b>'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... T</b><b>he story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged ... </b><b>A hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much.</b><b>'</b> Siri Hustvedt<br><i></i><br><i>Nightwood</i> tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. A modernist masterpiece, and one of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel remains exceptional.<br><br><b>'A bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem ... The closest thing to James Joyce.' </b>Andre Aciman<br><br><b>'The great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy.'</b> T.S. Eliot<br><br><b>'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century.'</b> William S. Burroughs<br><br><b>'A writer of wild and original gifts . To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of <i>Nightwood</i></b><b>, a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities - her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.' </b>Elizabeth Hardwick <b>Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic.</b><br><b></b><br><b>'<i>Nightwood</i> is itself. It is its own created world, exotic and strange, and reading it is like drinking wine with a pearl dissolving in the glass ... From now on, a part of you is pearl-lined.' </b>Jeanette Winterson<br><br><b>'Like a dark lesbian genius rolling in a giant heap of damp, dead leaves. What a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' </b>Eileen Myles<br><br><b>'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... T</b><b>he story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged ... </b><b>A hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much.</b><b>'</b> Siri Hustvedt<br><i></i><br><i>Nightwood</i> tells the stories of the love-lives of a group of American expats and Europeans in Paris in the 1920s - an exotic, night-time underworld, eccentric, seedy and beautiful. A modernist masterpiece, and one of the earliest novels to explicitly portray homosexuality, the influence of Djuna Barnes's novel remains exceptional.<br><br><b>'A bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem ... The closest thing to James Joyce.' </b>Andre Aciman<br><br><b>'The great achievement of a style, the beauty of phrasing, the brilliance of wit and characterisation, and a quality of horror and doom very nearly related to that of Elizabethan tragedy.'</b> T.S. Eliot<br><br><b>'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century.'</b> William S. Burroughs<br><br><b>'A writer of wild and original gifts . To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of <i>Nightwood</i></b><b>, a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities - her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.' </b>Elizabeth Hardwick