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Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir (Paris Press)
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Title: Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir (Paris Press)
Author: Bryher
ISBN: 9781930464087
Publisher: Paris Press
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Paris Press ed.
Number of Pages: 392
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.
Author: Bryher
ISBN: 9781930464087
Publisher: Paris Press
Published: 2006
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Paris Press ed.
Number of Pages: 392
Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: 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.
