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Djuna Barnes

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Djuna Barnes was an American artist, illustrator, journalist, and writer who is perhaps best known for her novel Nightwood (1936), a cult classic of lesbian fiction and an important work of modernist literature.

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Nightwood
Djuna Barnes
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In the opium-scented shadows of 1920s Paris, a desperate woman's obsessive love for a shapeshifting, wealthy heir unravels a world of forbidden desires and tragic self-destruction.