Nightwood

Lose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic.<BR><BR>''Nightwood 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.'' Jeanette Winterson<BR><BR>''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.'' Eileen Myles<BR><BR>''I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed ... The story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged ... A hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much.'' Siri Hustvedt<BR><BR>Nightwood 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>''A bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem ... The closest thing to James Joyce.'' Andre Aciman<BR><BR>''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.'' T.S. Eliot<BR><BR>''One of the greatest books of the twentieth century.'' William S. Burroughs<BR><BR>''A writer of wild and original gifts ... To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of Nightwood, a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities - her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.'' Elizabeth Hardwick