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Black Sun: the Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Free FREE BLACK SUN: THE BRIEF TRANSIT AND VIOLENT ECLIPSE OF HARRY CROSBY PDF Geoffrey Wolff | 416 pages | 01 Sep 2003 | NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS | 9781590170663 | English | New York, NY, United States Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby by Geoffrey Wolff Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Includes an afterword by the author. Harry Crosby was Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby godson of J. Wolff understands his man admirably, sympathizing with him while remaining deeply critical. A breathtaking story. When you buy a book, we donate a book. Sign in. 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Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. Morgan and a friend of Ernest Hemingway. Living in Paris in the twenties and directing the Black Sun Press, which published James Joyce among others, Crosby was at the center of the wild life of the lost generation. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit o Includes an afterword by the author Harry Crosby was the godson of J. Drugs, drink, sex, gambling, the deliberate derangement of the senses in the pursuit of transcendent revelation: these were Crosby's pastimes untilwhen he shot his girlfriend, the recent bride of another man, and then himself. Black Sun is novelist and master biographer Geoffrey Wolff's subtle and striking picture of a man who killed himself to make his life a work of art. Get A Copy. Paperbackpages. More Details Original Title. Other Editions 9. Friend Reviews. To see what your friends Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Black Sunplease sign up. Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Average rating 3. Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Dec 25, Springs Toledo rated it really liked it. Geoffrey Wolff is a very capable writer. I'd never read him until my fascination with the s compelled me to pick up this book at Isaiah Thomas, a sprawling bookstore in Mashpee, MA. Wolff is eloquent, diligent, and insightful; I'd even Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby great. What baffled me was why he would direct his attention to an unconscionable cad and degenerate like Harry Crosby. Crosby was not merely a hedonist relentlessly pursuing the next high, he was a child molester and a murderer who was indulged throughout Geoffrey Wolff is a very capable writer. Crosby was not merely a hedonist relentlessly pursuing the next high, he was a child molester and a murderer Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby was indulged throughout his worthless life when he should have been slapped around. I'd recast the subtitle just so: "A disturbing exploration of what can happen when old money meets bad parenting. On to Somerset Maugham's "Christmas Holiday," a salve. Dec 29, Sketchbook rated it really liked it. WW1 left Harry brutally shell-shocked. He was rich, handsome, charming and supported the arts while taking drugs and experimenting sexually. This bio, packed w trivia, has a Puritan-American tone, but who can't be wild about Harry? Biographer Wolff offers exact reflections on the French, as Harry lived in Paris throughout the 20s : "The French have elevated toleration of eccentricity to the estate of a creed," he notes, while being basically conventional seekers of form and balance. The French ar WW1 left Harry brutally shell-shocked. The French are so damn sure of their own manners that they don't care what their guests are up to. Foreigners always come and go; they're neither threats nor inspirations. He concludes: Foreigners are invisible creatures. View all 3 comments. I've owned this book for many years because how could one not see this book and immediately buy it with intent to read? It is about a small-time publisher, poet, and mystic who leads a violent crazy life that culminates in murder-suicide on the cusp of the Great Depression!!! The problem is that Harry Crosby is actually not that interesting. The story is riven with a single deus ex machina--the inexhaustible fortune of Harr I've owned this book for many years because how could one not see this book and immediately buy it with intent to read? The story is riven with a single deus ex machina--the inexhaustible fortune of Harry's family, which continually steps in to help Harry and Caresse buy race horses or go on flying lessons or spend weeks masturbating to the sunrise while devising sick acrostics for his name. It's the story of someone who wants passionately to be an Oddball Genius but who is not that smart or talented, and it's kind of rare to see that rendered so well, but, um, it is not that satisfying a story, I guess? In the Twenties! The trouble is that this is a biography written from a basic place of condescension rather than awe maybe. Both elements are there, but the former is firmly in control, and that gets in the way of what's wonderful about this book. Also there is not nearly enough about Caresse Crosby? Would love to know if anyone has Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby book recommendations about her, because she seems generally like the better Crosby. I mean she hung out with Anais Nin and tried to start a world peace center at Delphi and ran an art colony in a Roman castle and also she invented the bra and possibly the paperback. I think my main beef with this book is its structure. A story that's fundamentally about a kind of perpetual antithesis--man rejects Boston in favor of worshiping the Sun as a death god--should really follow a slightly more chronological pattern than this does, with Crosby's exploits grouped mostly by thematic association. I really wanted more of a sense of how this life was actually dissolving in the act of its flowering, and jumping back and forth throughout the Twenties to trace various affairs didn't do it for me totally? The parts about how small press publishing worked in Lost Generation-era Paris are awesome. Basically if you were rich and had access to paper stocks you could make cool zines with your friends! Mar 07, Ken rated it really liked it Shelves: finished-in Stellar writing on Wolff's part, though you have to tolerate the subject because he's a bit of an ass. It's the old separating art from artist thing, only in this case, separating biography from subject. Enjoyed best the setting 20s Paris, for the most part and the cast of characters lots of Lost Generation folk, to whom I feel an affinity of sorts. Mar 18, Rjyan rated it really liked it. Well, Mr. Wolff sure brings Harry Crosby to life! A little ways in I was starting to get real annoyed at the condescension the author kept leveling at his subject. A little ways further, I was amused at how the Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby had, in this, assumed the role of The Sun-- the object of Harry's worship and obsession-- in bringing its subject to life but also pitilessly withering him with that same light.
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