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Title: THE MAN WHO WOULD MARRY SUSAN SONTAG
AND OTHER INTIMATE LITERARY PORTRAITS OF THE BOHEMIAN ERA
By: Edward Field, David Bergman (Editor), Joan Larkin (Editor)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0299213242
ISBN 13: 9780299213244
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Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
Pub. date: 1 March, 2007
Series: Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiographies
Pages: 302
Description: Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. This work is an account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris' Left Bank and Tangier.
Synopsis: Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris' Left Bank and Tangier - where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gay - Field's intimate portraits of literary contemporaries such as Susan Sontag, Alfred Chester, May Swenson, and Frank O'Hara bring back the sadness, bawdiness, humor, and romanticism of the nigh-forgotten postwar bohemian subculture.
Illustrations: 12 b/w photos, 1 drawing
Publication: US
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Returns: Non-returnable
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