{"product_id":"ryder","title":"Ryder","description":"\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003ePublished in 1928, \u003cem\u003eRyder\u003c\/em\u003e is Djuna Barnes’s audacious first novel, a formally inventive portrait of family life that draws upon the unruly traditions of satire, autobiography and modernist experimentation. At its centre is Wendell Ryder, a restless patriarch whose appetite for freedom and sexual conquest sits uneasily beside the expectations of marriage and fatherhood, while his wife, Amelia, bears the weight of his contradictions. Moving between prose, poetry, parody and biblical pastiche, Barnes constructs a family history that is as much an assault on conventional morality as it is an exploration of the intimate costs of desire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"x12ofw9d\"\u003eThe novel’s fractured structure and irreverent treatment of sexuality, religion and domestic authority anticipate the more concentrated linguistic brilliance of \u003cem\u003eNightwood\u003c\/em\u003e, while establishing Barnes as one of the most distinctive voices of American modernism. Its unconventional form, provocative humour and refusal to offer a comfortable moral resolution make \u003cem\u003eRyder\u003c\/em\u003e an essential work for readers interested in the experimental literature of the interwar years and the challenges it posed to inherited ideas of family, gender and respectability.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Gardner's EU","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":63972014162250,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/thelamppostparis.com\/fr\/products\/ryder","provider":"The Lamp-Post Library \u0026 Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}