suggested Nightwood as the title for the novel originally entitled Bow. Bound in the original gray boards with a red cloth spine stamped in bright gold. of Barnes has appeared,12 and two, primarily feminist, book-length rvalu. It contains her novel 'Nightwood,' a collection of short stories entitled 'Spillway,' and a verse play, 'The Antiphon' which she completed shortly before her death in 1982. Other articles where Nightwood is discussed: Djuna Barnes: Her second novel, Nightwood (1936), is her masterpiece, about the doomed homosexual and. This is a selection of work by the American writer Djuna Barnes. The jacket is lightly rubbed and has a couple short (less than ½ inch) closed edge tears. Fine condition in a bright and shiny Very Good dust jacket. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1980. Life, the pastures in which the night feeds and prunes the cud that nourishes us to despair. Her husband, Guido Volkbein (senior), died six months earlier of a fever, so the baby is an orphan. Nightwood 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.

Immediately after naming her newborn, Hedvig dies.

Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good dust jacket. The book opens in 1880 when Hedvig Volkbein delivers her only childa son named Felix.

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