Ryder by Djuna Barnes
An experimental, fiercely lyrical modernist novel that chronicles the rise and fall of an eccentric American family through a mosaic of prose, verse, lists and faux documents; centered on a charismatic, seafaring patriarch whose self-mythologizing and appetites unsettle domestic life, the narrative satirizes provincial mores while plumbing erotic obsession, gender ambiguity and familial decay. Alternately mordant and elegiac, the book collapses biography, genealogy and myth into a fragmented collage that both celebrates and indicts its characters’ desires.
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