The Dead Ladies Project
Author | : Jessa Crispin |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 249 |
Release | : 2015-09-22 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780226278452 |
ISBN-13 | : 022627845X |
Rating | : 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Dead Ladies Project written by Jessa Crispin and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2015-09-22 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jessa Crispin was thirty, she left Chicago and took off for Berlin. Half a decade later, she's still on the road, in search not so much of a home as of understanding.Fascinated by exile, Crispin travels an itinerary of of places that have drawn writers who needed to break free from their origins and start afresh.She reflects on Maud Gonne fomenting revolution, on Nora Barnacl, Rebecca West, Margaret Anderson and Jean Rhys.