Soul mates of the lost generation : the letters of John Dos Passos and Crystal Ross / Lewis M. Dabney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dabney, Lewis M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970--Correspondence.

Dos Passos, John.

Ross, Crystal--Correspondence.

Ross, Crystal.

Novelists, American--20th century--Biography.

Novelists, American.

Dos Passos, John, 1896-1970.

Genre:

Biographies.

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

xviii, 162 pages: illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022.

Summary:

"Based on the correspondence between the two, this dual biography tells the love story between the novelist John Dos Passos and his fiancée Crystal Ross in the Paris of the 1920s"-- Provided by publisher.

"Soul Mates of the Lost Generation recovers for contemporary readers one of the last great collections of letters of the Jazz Age. It is the correspondence between the pioneering novelist John Dos Passos and a young woman named Crystal Ross, to whom he was engaged and who reveals herself as one of the truly daring, vivacious spirits of that extraordinary time. Before his passing in 2015, Ross's son, the esteemed literary scholar Lewis M. Dabney, completed a dual biography of the couple's time together based on this rare correspondence. The bulk of the letters were written between 1923 and 1928, during Dos Passos's first major creative period. The letters relate scenes from the pair's life in the rich culture of Paris in the 1920s and their association with Hemingway, the Fitzgeralds, and other figures of literary modernism. Engaged in 1924, Dos Passos and Ross often corresponded about their ongoing work and the work of others in Dos Passos's circle. Dos Passos introduced his fianče to Hemingway, and the couple accompanied him and other writers on an early trip to Pamplona, the setting of The Sun Also Rises, in which Ross makes a cameo appearance. This collection of never-before-seen letters offers rare insights into the life of the influential modernist author of Manhattan Transfer, The 42nd Parallel, and The Big Money, and into that of a remarkably independent, fascinating woman" -- Page 2 of cover.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: PART I

Dos and Crys

A Texas Expatriate

A Rover on the Road

Paris and Pamplona in the Summer of 1924

Love and Duty

PART II

Winter Struggles, Spring Blues

Crys Makes a Decision

-Dos to the Rescue

Interlude in Paris

-Strasbourg Loyalties

-Arrival Stateside

PART III

Madame Butterfly

Two Marriages

C. R. D. on Hemingway and Others; Dos Passos's Women in Manhattan Transfer and U.S.A.

PART IV

The Unorthodox New Dealer and the Unlikely Republican

Appendixes

A. Review of The Sun Also Rises / Crystal Ross

B. Review of `Men without Women' / Crystal Ross

C. Letter to the New Republic, July 1939 / John Dos Passos

D. Letter to John Dos Passos, 1957 / Crystal Ross.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Dabney, Lewis M. Soul mates of the lost generation.

ISBN:

9780813948676

0813948673

OCLC:

1323246886