Nightwood [Paperback]

A novel of extraordinary and appalling force...a kind of symbol of sinister magnificence. One of the great masterworks of twentieth-century fiction.Djuna Barnes is a writer of wild and original gifts. . . .To her name there is always to be attached the splendor ofA masterpiece of modernism.To have been madly and disastrously in love is a kind of glory that can only be made intelligible in a sublime poetrythe revelatory and layered poetry of Djuna Barnes's masterpiece,The fiery and enigmatic masterpieceone of the greatest novels of the Modernist era.