The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir
Bryher$16.96
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Out of Africa meets A Moveable Feast in this swashbuckling memoir of courage, literary passion, and adventure
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Paris Press
Published: 07/01/2006
ISBN: 9781930464087
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 1.13d
Review Citations: Library Journal 06/15/2006 pg. 119
New Yorker (The) 09/18/2006 pg. 89
Lambda Book Report 12/01/2007 pg. 8
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.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Paris Press
Published: 07/01/2006
ISBN: 9781930464087
Pages: 392
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 1.13d
Review Citations: Library Journal 06/15/2006 pg. 119
New Yorker (The) 09/18/2006 pg. 89
Lambda Book Report 12/01/2007 pg. 8