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The Heart to Artemis: A Writer's Memoir (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781930464087)
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xOut 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-10: 1930464088
ISBN-13: 9781930464087
Publisher: Paris Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 1.13d
Review Citation(s):
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.
Author: Bryher
ISBN-10: 1930464088
ISBN-13: 9781930464087
Publisher: Paris Press
Language: English
Published: 07/01/2006
Pages: 392
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.04w x 1.13d
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 06/15/2006 pg. 119
New Yorker (The) 09/18/2006 pg. 89
Lambda Book Report 12/01/2007 pg. 8
By Bryher
xBryher (1894-1983) wrote many critically acclaimed novels and memoirs during her lifetime. She was deeply involved in film, politics, and psychology. She funded Contact Editions, and edited Life and Letters To-day and the first English film journal, Close Up. She was the longtime companion of H.D., and a generous supporter of numerous writers, artists, psychoanalysts, and culture icons, including Marianne Moore, Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Sylvia Beach of Shakespeare and Company.
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