`A charming memoir of life in Montparnasse in the late 1920s - written at the time and shortly after - when the author, a Canadian poet, was in his late teens, a dropout from McGill. The obligatory portraits of famous writers and of the originals of famous literary characters are included, but the real interest lies in Mr Glassco's own precipitous skid from bohemian writer, living on an allowance from home, to pornographic model and gigolo, to desperate case of tuberculosis, shipped home to Montreal just in time.' New ...
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`A charming memoir of life in Montparnasse in the late 1920s - written at the time and shortly after - when the author, a Canadian poet, was in his late teens, a dropout from McGill. The obligatory portraits of famous writers and of the originals of famous literary characters are included, but the real interest lies in Mr Glassco's own precipitous skid from bohemian writer, living on an allowance from home, to pornographic model and gigolo, to desperate case of tuberculosis, shipped home to Montreal just in time.' New Yorker With humour and perception, John Glassco records his adventures and life in Paris as a member of the literary set of the 1920s and his meetings and friendships with writers and artists. With a keen eye and sharp wit, he offers us an engaging view of the bohemian expatriate community. His account of crashing a party given by American writer Gertrude Stein as `a rhombiodal woman dressed in a floor-length gown apparently made of some kind of burlap' is a minor triumph. He meets Ernest Hemingway in a bar and describes him as `almost as unattractive as his short stories - those studies in tight lipped emotionalism and volcanic sentimentality.'
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Add this copy of Memoirs of Montparnasse to cart. $73.96, good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1970 by Oxford University Press, USA.
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