Galahad and I Thought of Daisy Contributor(s): Wilson, Edmund (Author) |
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ISBN: 0374505888 ISBN-13: 9780374505882 Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux OUR PRICE: $24.30 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1963 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | City Life |
Dewey: FIC |
Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5" W x 8" (0.80 lbs) 332 pages |
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Publisher Description: From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story Galahad. Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson's I Thought of Daisy tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout, including John Dos Passos and Wilson's lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay. What needs to be said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine, of lamplit islands where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss. - John Updike |
Contributor Bio(s): Wilson, Edmund: - Edmund Wilson (1895-1972) was a novelist, memoirist, playwright, journalist, poet, and editor but it is as a literary critic that he is most highly regarded. |