Americans in Paris. / George Wickes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wickes, George.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Americans--France--Paris--History--20th century.

Americans.

American literature.

France--Paris.

History.

Paris (France)--Intellectual life--20th century.

Paris (France).

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature--France--Paris--History and criticism.

American literature--French influences.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi pages, 4 unnumbered pages, 302 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm

Edition:

[First edition].

Place of Publication:

Garden City, New York : Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1969.

Contents:

Introduction: Why Paris

I. Gertrude Stein, the Mother of us All. 27 rue de Fleurus; Postimpressionism in prose; The Autobiography of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas

II. E. E. Cummings and the Great War. The view from the windows of nowhere; The education of John Dos Passos; Typographic verse

III. Man Ray, Dada and Surrealism. Paris comes to New York; The mechanical eye

IV. Ernest Hemingway in Montparnasse. On the seacoast of Bohemia; Little magazines and other publishing ventures

V. Virgil Thomson and Other Musical Saints. The musical setting; Enfant terrible; The trade of being a saint

VI. Henry Miller Down and Out in Paris. Cancer and delirium; Epitaph for a generation.

Notes:

"Paris review editions"

"Paris Review Editions is a joint venture of 'The Paris Review' and Doubleday & Company ... our aim is to follow and expand 'The Paris Review' tradition by publishing in book form the creative work of talented writers and non-fiction of literary quality."--Dustjacket.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-290) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy: dustjacket retained.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Chaim Potok October 1969 Philadelphia".

OCLC:

21335