{"product_id":"the-man-who-would-marry-susan-sontag-and-other-intimate-literary-portraits-of-the-bohemian-era-9780299213244","title":"The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag  And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong 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. This work is an account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris' Left Bank and Tangier.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe book is entertaining, offering gossipy anecdotes about a range of colorful gay writers, including Alfred Chester (who never really wanted to marry Susan Sontag), Robert Friend, May Swenson, and Arthur Gregor. These disparate recountings hang together because Field's sensibility - candid, perceptive, self-deprecatory - unifies them. This is a fun book that recalls an important era of American literary history. - G. Grieve-Carlson, Choice \"\"Of serious interest to anyone intrigued by New York literary life of the 1950s and '60s.\"\" - Publishers Weekly","brand":"MP-WIS Uni of Wisconsin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515395858775,"sku":"9780299213244","price":18.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-man-who-would-marry-susan-sontag-and-other-intimate-literary-portraits-of-the-bohemian-era-9780299213244","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}