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Loading... Garrets and Pretenders: A History of Bohemianism in Americaby Albert Parry
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. Interesting to me for including the disciples of Ambrose Bierce in California (first edition, Covici, Friede) Parry's well reasearched, highly readable book didn't have much chance for success, sadly. Published in 1933, when America was in the depths of the Depression, people weren't in the mood to read a book about Bohemians in Washington Square. The book floundered and sank and even Parry had trouble getting copies to give away. That's really a shame because this book is quite an eye opener. In a land still darkened by the shadow of the Puritan Fathers, one would think Bohemianism would have a hard time making it. Not so. Even if Poe, the father of American Bohemianism, was not a success, he certainly set the bar high for those who followed and American Bohemia flourished a prospered in places like Washington Square, Taos, San Francisco reaching its apotheosis in the 1920s. A wonderful book filled with people you've probably never heard of but certainly ought to know. no reviews | add a review
Hailed as "thoroughly fascinating" by The New York Times, this study recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of generations of American hipsters and outsider artists. Cartoons, drawings, and photos illustrate its profiles of nonconformists and iconoclasts such as Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce. This edition updates the story to the Beat Generation. No library descriptions found. |
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