Status
Checked out
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Publication
Paris Press (2006), Paperback, 336 pages
Description
Bryher, adventurer, novelist, publisher flees Victorian Britain for the raucous streets of Cairo and the sultry Parisian cafes. Among the vibrancy of artists and writers in twenties and thirties Paris, London, and beyond, she develops relationships with Ernest Hemingway, Sigmund Freud, Gertrude Stein, Man Ray, Sylvia Beach, and many others. This compelling memoir reveals Bryher's unconventional childhood, her relationship with her longtime partner H.D., her impact on modernism, and her profound sense of social justice, helping over 100 people escape from the Nazis before fleeing her safe-house on Lake Geneva and returning to H.D. in London.
User reviews
LibraryThing member franoscar
What would a spoiler be. This is long. She has to use circumlocution, especially I guess when talking about love, and that weakens it I think. She refers a lot to people I don't know about & who have been largely forgotten, I think. She is a little something, not smug exactly, not self-righteous
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exactly, but something. I feel like I slogged through it. I think I can use it for the special project (I forget what I'm calling it) even though this isn't a novel. She did write novels. She defines herself as a historian in her talk about her as a child, like she did all these things, or was all these things, because she was a historian, but then she didn't actually become a historian. Maybe a little essentialist. And there is one horrible place where she quotes & agrees with somebody who blamed the Nazis on over-education. I have the 2nd book, it might be more interesting because I've probably heard of those people. She is pretty mean about William Carlos Williams. Show Less
Physical description
336 p.; 5.94 x 1.1 inches
ISBN
1930464088 / 9781930464087
Local notes
autobiography