Galantière: The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man

Mark, Lurie

ISBN 10: 099910022X / ISBN 13: 9780999100226

Published by Overlook Press LLC, 2018

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First Edition, First Printing. Published by Overlook Press, 2017. Octavo. Gray boards. Book is signed and inscribed by author on flyleaf. Book is very good. Sharp corners. Binding tight and pages crisp. Slight spine lean and some smudges on page ends. Dust jacket is very good with light shelf wear and some scuffing. 402 pages. ISBN: 9780999100226. 100% positive feedback. 30 day money back guarantee. NEXT DAY SHIPPING! Excellent customer service. Please email with any questions or if you would like a photo. All books packed carefully and ship with free delivery confirmation/tracking. All books come with free bookmarks. Ships from Southampton, New York.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Galantière: The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man
• Publisher: Overlook Press LLC
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 099910022X
• ISBN 13: 9780999100226
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)

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Synopsis

How he could now be forgotten seems unfathomable. Lewis Galantière guided Hemingway through his first years in Paris, when the author was unknown and desperate for recognition. He helped James Joyce and Sylvia Beach launch Ulysses; started John Houseman in his theatrical career; and collaborated with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the writing of Wind, Sand and Stars and Flight to Arras. He was a playwright, a literary and cultural critic and an author, Federal Reserve Bank economist throughout the Great Depression, director of the French Branch of the Office of War Information at the onset of World War II, ACLU Director during the McCarthyism-fraught 1950s, Counselor to Radio Free Europe and, at a crucial time in its history, president of PEN America, the writers advocacy organization.

Yet, today, few know his name and, to those who do, he is a cipher...

And that was precisely his intent. The son of Jewish Latvian immigrants at a time of rampant anti-semitism, Lewis spent his first thirteen years in Chicago's tenements and did not complete grade school. Yet, by his early twenties, Lewis had convinced the world that he was the apostate son of French Catholic parents, and had earned degrees from French and German universities.

Galantière, The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man, is both a historical chronicle providing rare insights into the lives of leading twentieth century figures (with previously unpublished personal correspondence from Hadley Hemingway and Alfred Knopf), and a meticulously researched biography. Galantière presents, for the first time, the seemingly magical story of the self-fabricated and fully-realized man, Lewis Galantière.