
Exile's Return
A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
Malcolm Cowley(Author)
Penguin Books Ltd (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 1994
Book
Paperback/Softback
400 pages
978-0-14-018776-2 (ISBN)
Description
The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 197 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 22 mm
Weight
424 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-14-018776-2 (9780140187762)
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12/1994
Penguin Classics
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Book
11/1977
Penguin Random House Australia
€31.04
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Persons
Malcolm Cowley (1898-1989) a leadiing literary figure of his time, wrote numerous books of literary criticism, essays, and poetry.
Content
Mansions in the air; war in bohmemia; traveller's cheque; Paris pilgrimages; the death of Dada; the city of anger; the age of islands; echoes of a suicide.