Nancy Cunard
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few lives in the twentieth century burned as brilliantly — and as recklessly — as that of Nancy Cunard, the heiress, poet, activist, and publisher who refused every convention her gilded world demanded of her. Anne Chisholm's biography chronicles the extraordinary arc of this singular woman, from her privileged upbringing as the daughter of the legendary shipping dynasty to her passionate immersion in the bohemian avant-garde of 1920s Paris, her fierce anti-fascist campaigning, and her landmark editorship of the Negro anthology — a monumental act of cultural solidarity that brought together the voices of the Black diaspora at a time when such an endeavour was both radical and dangerous. Chisholm writes with precision and empathy, reconstructing a life that was as contradictory as it was compelling: a woman who counted Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Louis Aragon among her intimates, yet who spent her final years in isolated, impoverished defiance. Nancy Cunard is a portrait of a woman perpetually at war with the world's expectations — and the reader is left to wonder whether she was ultimately destroyed by that world, or simply refused to be contained by it.
Author: Anne Chisholm
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Worn/faded, no tears
Pages: Tanning and foxing
Few lives in the twentieth century burned as brilliantly — and as recklessly — as that of Nancy Cunard, the heiress, poet, activist, and publisher who refused every convention her gilded world demanded of her. Anne Chisholm's biography chronicles the extraordinary arc of this singular woman, from her privileged upbringing as the daughter of the legendary shipping dynasty to her passionate immersion in the bohemian avant-garde of 1920s Paris, her fierce anti-fascist campaigning, and her landmark editorship of the Negro anthology — a monumental act of cultural solidarity that brought together the voices of the Black diaspora at a time when such an endeavour was both radical and dangerous. Chisholm writes with precision and empathy, reconstructing a life that was as contradictory as it was compelling: a woman who counted Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, and Louis Aragon among her intimates, yet who spent her final years in isolated, impoverished defiance. Nancy Cunard is a portrait of a woman perpetually at war with the world's expectations — and the reader is left to wonder whether she was ultimately destroyed by that world, or simply refused to be contained by it.