Black Sun : the brief transit and violent eclipse of Harry Crosby / Geoffrey Wolff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wolff, Geoffrey, 1937-

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crosby, Harry, 1898-1929.

Crosby, Harry.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Suicide victims.

United States.

Literature publishing--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Literature publishing.

France--Paris.

History.

Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Americans.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France).

Publishers and publishing--France--Biography.

Publishers and publishing.

France.

Suicide victims--United States--Biography.

Photographers--United States--Biography.

Photographers.

Genre:

Biographies.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)

Physical Description:

xiii, 379 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, 2003.

Summary:

"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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-371) and index.

ISBN:

1590170660

OCLC:

52519144