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Pagan Light: Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri

Pagan Light: Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri

James, Jamie

Paperback

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Publisher Price: $25.99

ISBN10: 1250251141
ISBN13: 9781250251145
Publisher: Picador USA
Published: Mar 31 2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.75
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice

Pagan Light is mesmerizing. Every detail is compelling. I felt I was reading a family history of a family far more interesting than mine. --Edmund White, author of Our Young Man

A rich, intimate embrace of Capri, which was a magnet for artistic renegades and a place of erotic refuge

Isolated and arrestingly beautiful, the island of Capri has been a refuge for renegade artists and writers fleeing the strictures of conventional society from the time of Augustus, who bought the island in 29 BC after defeating Antony and Cleopatra, to the early twentieth century, when the poet and novelist Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen was in exile there after being charged with corrupting minors, to the 1960s, when Truman Capote spent time on the island. We also meet the Marquis de Sade, Goethe, Mark Twain, Oscar Wilde, Compton Mackenzie, Rilke, Lenin, and Gorky, among other astonishingly vivid characters.

Grounded in a deep intimacy with Capri and full of captivating anecdotes, Jamie James's Pagan Light tells how a tiny island served as a wildly permissive haven for people--queer, criminal, sick, marginalized, and simply crazy--who had nowhere else to go.

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