Memoirs of Montparnasse - (New York Review Books Classics) by John Glassco (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Memoirs of Montparnasse</i> 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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"It's wonderful to see John Glassco's charming <i>Memoirs of Montparnasse</i> getting the international recognition it deserves. Like its author -- whom I knew quite well in the 1960s -- the book is a loveable and eccentric rogue, fond of style and up to mischief. It never fails to entertain." -- Margaret Atwood <p/>"<i>Memoirs of Montparnasse</i> is one of the most joyous books on youth -- the thrill and the gall and the adventure of it. It is also one of the best books on being in literary Paris in the 1920s." --Michael Ondaatje <p/>"[<i>Memoirs of Montparnasse</i>] should be read and at last recognized as the most dramatic of the many narratives dealing with Paris in the 1920's." --<i>The New York Times</i> <p/>"The title calls to mind a whole genre of books...But Glassco's book, published from a manuscript nearly forty years old, is fresher and truer to the moment than the others, as well as being more novelistic and, in a sense, legendary."--<i>The New Republic</i> <p/>"A very good book, perhaps a great book." --<i>The Washington Star</i> <p/>"The best book of prose by a Canadian that I've ever read." --<i>Montreal Gazette</i> <p/>"This is a delightful, on-the-spot report of the days when it was still possible to be very young, very hip and very happy all at the same time...this precious, witty document from a long-vanished younger generation has both the freshness and remoteness of some ornate space ship found intact in a forgotten tomb." --<i>The New York Times</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>John Glassco</b> (1909-1981) was born in Montreal and attended McGill, but moved to Paris before attaining his degree. Glassco won the Governor General's Award in 1971 for his <i>Selected Poems</i>. <p/><b>Louis Begley</b> lives in New York City. His previous novels are <i>Wartime Lies, The Man Who Was Late, As Max Saw It, About Schimdt, Mistler's Exit, Schmidt Delivered</i>, and <i>Shipwreck</i>.
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