15 JANUARY 1977, page 19

Sun Strokes

Peter Conrad Black Sun: The Brief Transit and Violent Eclipse of Harry Crosby Geoffrey Wolff (Hamish Hamilton £4.95)......

Crosby's Life Is Of Interest Only Because Of His Death.

Having been blooded at Verdun, he returned to scandalise the patricians of Boston, and then fled to systematically derange his senses in the literary society of Paris; in 1929......