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Loading... The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era (Living Out: Gay and Lesbian Autobiog) (edition 2007)by Edward Field
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In some ways, this is a graceless book. It covers some of the same terrain as Edmund White's novels/memoirs, but with less of a narrative arc. And Field's prose is hardly fluid--here's hoping that his poetry is better, more artful. Although, in some ways, that's his argument: that his poetry was "natural" and free of artifice. Yes, yes. A bohemian, living for his art, taking care of his lover. The book does touch on some lesser-known personalities around the New York School years, which was interesting. I learned a lot about Paul Bowles and his wife--hopefully it won't prevent me from finishing Bowles's book of short stories. ( ) no reviews | add a review
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HTML: 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's Left Bank and Tangierâ??where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gayâ??Field opens the closet door to reveal, as never been seen before, some of the most important writers of his time. Here are young, beautiful Susan Sontag sitting at the feet of her idol Alfred Chester, who shrewdly plotted to marry her; May Swenson and her two loves; Paul and Jane Bowles in their ambiguous marriage; Frank O'Hara in and out of bed; Fritz Peters, the anointed son of Gurdjieff; and James Baldwin, Isabel Miller (Patience and Sarah), Tobias Schneebaum, Robert Friend, and many others. With its intimate portraits, Field's memoir brings back a forgotten eraâ??postwar bohemiaâ??bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and No library descriptions found. |
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