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Name: Nightwood
Rating: 2.8 (5 reviews)
Author: Djuna Barnes

Nightwood centers on the passionate and turbulent relationships of Robin Vote, whose romantic entanglements span the eccentric aristocrat Felix Volkbein, whom she meets in Paris, the American writer Nora Flood, and the elusive Jenny Petherbridge. The novel, praised by the New York Times, delves into themes of erotic obsession, identity, and the subversive power of language, employing irony and symbolism to weave a labyrinth of meaning and revelation. The edition contains T. S. Eliot’s Introduction to the 1937 American edition.

First publish date: 1936

Genre: LGBTQ+ Fiction/Lesbian Fiction

Authors: Djuna Barnes

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