Black Sun by Geoffrey Wolff

Black Sun by Geoffrey Wolff

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.

Geoffrey Wolff is a well-known novelist, essayist, biographer, and critic in contemporary American literature. He is Professor Emeritus of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, where he was the Director of the Graduate Fiction Program from 1995 to 2006. He was educated at Cambridge and Princeton, where he graduated summa cum laude. He formerly worked as a book editor at the Washington Post and Newsweek and served on the faculties of Istanbul University and Princeton University. He is the author of six books, including The Age of Consent (Knopf, 1995), which is set in a small utopian society in upstate New York, and The Last Club (Knopf, 1990), which is about Princeton's covert social networks. Black Sun (Random House, 1976), a literary biography of the short-lived avant-garde poet Harry Crosby; The Art of Burning Bridges: A Life of John O'Hara (Knopf, 2003), a literary biography of the American fiction writer; The Duke of Deception (Random House, 1979), a memoir that was a runner-up for the Pulitzer Prize; and The Edge of Maine (National Geographic, 2005), a rich portrayal of the

In 1994, the American Academy of Arts and Letters awarded him the Prize in Literature, and he has also earned grants from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. He was a Member of the American Academy in Berlin in 2007. He and his family reside in Bath, Maine.

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ISBN 13	9781590170663
ISBN 10	1590170660
Titel	Black Sun
Autor	Geoffrey Wolff
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Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	The New York Review of Books, Inc
Erscheinungsjahr	2003-08-31
Seitenanzahl	416
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