Black Sun: Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby - Tapa blanda

Harry Crosby and his mistress were found dead in a New York hotel room in December 1929. The apparent double suicide caused a huge social scandal, but the circumstances have never been fully explained. Crosby - wealthy, privileged and beautiful - had long flirted with death. Living a Bohemian life in Paris as poet and publisher, he set up the Black Sun Press, which published such eminent writers as Pound and Eliot. But he was an exotic, in love with extravagant gestures, one of the "lost generation", profoundly affected by the Great War, and finally driven to the greatest gesture of his life. This biography of Crosby is by the author of "The Duke of Deception" and the novel "Providence".

Geoffrey Wolff graduated in 1961 from Princeton University summa cum laude, studied as a Fulbright Scholar at Cambridge University, and has since taught at Prrinceton, and Istanbul University. He has been the literary critic of the Washington Post, Newsweek and New Times, and has written for many other periodicals, among them Atlantic Monthly. A Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for Humanities and a Guggenheim Fellow, he is the author of four novels, Bad Debts (1969), The Sightseer (1974), Inklings (1978) and Providence (1986). He is also the author of the highy acclaimed The Duke of Deception (Vintage), the irresistable and touching memoir of his father, about which Richard Forde wrote: 'as pretty and winning a book on as serious a subject as you'll find in contemporary American writing' (Sunday Times).