Ladies Almanack
Djuna Barnes
Djuna Barnes must have had great fun writing and illustrating this book. It’s a lively lampoon of her lesbian chums of Left Bank Paris in the 1920s. The main character, Dame Evangeline Musset, is based on the notorious dyke Natalie Barney. Structured as a month-by-month almanac in a style that owes as much to Shakespeare’s comedies as to any literature of the intervening centuries, Barnes’s book follows the Dame’s amorous, often naughty, adventures.
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Details
Genre | Autobiographical Fiction |
Publication Date | 1972 |
Publisher | Harper & Row |
Format | Hardcover |
No. of Pages | 84 |
Language | English |
Rating | Great |
BookID | 6463 |