‘Are ya still alive, Djuna?’
Gaby Wood
- Djuna Barnes by Philip Herring
Viking, 416 pp, £20.00, May 1996, ISBN 0 670 84969 3
I look at pictures of her and I just can’t see it. She’s elegant, composed, straight-backed. She’s in a tweedy suit on the beach, scowling at the sun, one hand in pocket, the other holding sunglasses, as if about to make some school-ma’amish point. She’s neat, both modern and quintessentially luxurious; dark hair pulled back into a bun, eyes like soft triangles, sweeping cheekbones, it is a sculpted head, a lukewarm, intelligent face. She might be an actress, a spy, a photographer.
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