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Nightwood

Written by: Djuna Barnes, Jeanette Winterson - preface, T. S. Eliot - introduction
Narrated by: Gemma Dawson
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Nightwood, Djuna Barnes's strange and sinuous tour de force novel unfolds in the decadent shadows of Europe's great cities, Paris, Berlin, and Vienna - a world in which the boundaries of class, religion, and sexuality are bold but surprisingly porous.

The outsized characters who inhabit this world are some of the most memorable in all of fiction - there is Guido Volkbein, the Wandering Jew and son of a self-proclaimed baron; Robin Vote, the American expatriate who marries him and then engages in a series of affairs, first with Nora Flood and then with Jenny Petherbridge, driving all of her lovers to distraction with her passion for wandering alone in the night; and there is Dr. Matthew-Mighty-Grain-of-Salt-Dante-O'Connor, a transvestite and ostensible gynecologist, whose digressive speeches brim with fury, keen insights, and surprising allusions.

Barnes's depiction of these characters and their relationships has made the novel a landmark of feminist and lesbian literature.

©1937 Djuna Barnes; preface copyright 2006 by Jeanette Winterson (P)2017 Tantor Fiction Genre Fiction LGBTQIA2S+ Creators Literary Fiction
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Nightwood is somehow what you always dream the European you will fall in love will be like--beautiful, bitter, erotic, too intelligent, even a little repulsive. Of course, you got this idea from books in the first place, but until you read Nightwood, you have never read all this distilled into a single book so potent that a few sentences can make you feel drunk... or as you imagine being drunk is... Yes, in many ways this is a book about imagination and desire and Gemma Dawson's slightly smoky narration doesn't hurt that tone. #Audible1

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