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Black Sun : the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby

Title: Black Sun : the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby / Geoffrey Wolff.
Author: Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-
Publication: New York : Random House, ©1976.

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xiii, 367 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

Harry Crosby was the godson of J.P. Morgan, a friend of Ernest Hemingway, and member of the Lost Generation. 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, single-minded in his devotion to the creation and destruction inherent in art. 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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Biographies.
History.

Note

Designed by Antonina Krass.
Jacket design by Paul Gamarello.
Rare Book copy: In original dust jacket.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-359) and index.

Contents

Preface -- Chapters 1-18 -- Afterword -- Postscript -- Chronology -- Notes.

ISBN

0394474503
9780394474502
0354475403 (canceled/invalid)
0354474503 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

76008162

OCLC

ocm02119461
2119461

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Columbia University Libraries