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Exile's Return (1934) is one of the volumes that cinched Cowley's reputation as the Boswell of the "Lost Generation" of writers and artists who flocked to Paris following World War I. More than just another catalog of anecdotes on the expatriate games of Stein, Hemingway, Joyce, etc., this documents the transition of American literature and culture during one of its greatest periods of change.Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.


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<:;st> Reprint of the Penguin edition of 1976 with notes & intro by Donald W. Faulkuer. This classic of the Lost Generation is cited in BCL3. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

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Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Wilder, Dos Passos and the other Ameridan writers in Paris after World War I.

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The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped" to Europe, some forever, some as temporary exiles. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal portrait, in renouncing traditional life and literature, they expanded the boundaries of art.

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