| Memoirs of Montparnasse Contributor(s): Glassco, John (Author), Begley, Louis (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1590171845 ISBN-13: 9781590171844 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2007 Annotation: In 1928, 19-year-old Glassco escaped to Montparnasse, the haunt of geniuses and a legendarily limitless source of sex and booze. Ultimately, this memoir is less a tale of a particular time and place than it is a delightful hymn to a life of abandon in a never-never land of effortlessly fulfilled desire. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics |
| Dewey: B |
| LCCN: 2005036203 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.61" H x 5.4" W x 7.98" (0.66 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco's memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time. |