{"product_id":"9780571322862-nightwood","title":"Nightwood","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFaber Modern Classics\u003cbr\u003eWhat a great, shaking, grieving party this book is - the best.' Eileen Myles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed .\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLose yourself in the tortured love lives of expats in 1920s Paris in this iconic cult classic.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'\u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e 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.' \u003c\/b\u003eJeanette Winterson\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.' \u003c\/b\u003eEileen Myles\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'I read with the aching intensity of a person possessed . T\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003ehe story of passion and grief, of exile and loneliness, spoke directly to me, a young woman who [never] felt she quite belonged . \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA hymn to the dispossessed, the misbegotten and those who love too much.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e'\u003c\/b\u003e Siri Hustvedt\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A bold, exceptionally well-written modernist prose poem . The closest thing to James Joyce.' \u003c\/b\u003eAndre Aciman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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.'\u003c\/b\u003e T.S. Eliot\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'One of the greatest books of the twentieth century.'\u003c\/b\u003e William S. Burroughs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A writer of wild and original gifts . To her name there is always to be attached the splendor of \u003ci\u003eNightwood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e, a lasting achievement of her great gifts and eccentricities - her passionate prose and, in this case, a genuineness of human passions.' \u003c\/b\u003eElizabeth Hardwick\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40943300771937,"sku":"9780571322862","price":8.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28906362.jpg?v=1723038009","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780571322862-nightwood","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}