First published in New York newspapers between 1914 and 1916 these fourteen incisive tales wonderfully evoke Greenwich Village Bohemia of that time. Sketched with an exquisite and decadent pen are lovers and loners, schemers and dreamers, terrorists and cowards, and many, many more. There's the terrible 'Peacock', a 'slinky female with electrifying eyes and red hair' whom all men pursue but cannot entice; Paprika Johnson softly playing her pawnshop banjo above Swingerhoger's Beer Garden and Mamie Saloam the dancer who 'became fire and felt hell'. There's Clochetter Brin who 'knew that love and lottery went together', the silent Lena whose stolid appearance disguised her animal spirit and the cunning Madeleonette whose lovers enact the most dramatic rite of all.
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14 incisive tales in the book wonderfully evoke Greenwich Village Bohemia between 1914 and 1916. Her writing is exquisite and decadent and full of lovers and loners, schemers and dreamers and more. Beginning in 1923, when Djuna was 21, and through the next 6 yrs, she published over 100 articles and interviews in New York newspapers as well as 25 dramas and fiction pieces in the New York Morning Telegraph's Sunday magazine. These fiction stories add one more important chapter to what Eugune Jolas called " The revolution of the word". (