Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. ...
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Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. P. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes until 1929, when he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art.
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Edition:
1976, Random House
Hardcover
Details:
Edition:
Thirds printing
Publisher:
Random House
Published:
1976
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
14641911563
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8vo, pp. xiii, 367. Chronology, notes, bibliography, index. Illustrated with photographs. Black cloth. Cover slightly faded and scuffed at edges and sides of spine, o/w a Vight copy in heavily scuffed and chipped dj.
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Good in Good jacket. Book. 8vo-over 7¾-9¾" tall. Price NOT clipped, DJ nicely in archival wraps with tears and chips to the edges; moderate wear; pages dusty; interior clean. Illustrated. 3rd Printing. Harry Crosby (1898-1929) was an American heir, World War I veteran, bon vivant, poet, and publisher who for some epitomized the Lost Generation in American literature. He was the son of one of the richest banking families in New England. As such, he was heir to a portion of a substantial family fortune. Crosby's life in Paris was at the crossroads of early 20th-century Paris literary and cultural life. He numbered among his friends some of the most famous individuals of the early 20th century.
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