Memoirs of Montparnasse

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.

ISBN 1590171845   Pages 296 ISBN13 9781590171844 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher The New York Review of Books, Inc   Weight (grammes) 303 Imprint New York Review of Books Classics   Published in New York Format Paperback   Series title New York Review Books Classics Publication date 01 Jul 2007   Height (mm) 203 Writer of introduction Begley, Louis   Width (mm) 137 Library of Congress 2005036203   Spine width (mm) 15 DEWEY 811.52   Academic level General DEWEY edition DC22

"It's wonderful to see John Glassco's charming "Memoirs of Montparnasse" 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 ""Memoirs of Montparnasse" 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 "["Memoirs of Montparnasse"] should be read and at last recognized as the most dramatic of the many narratives dealing with Paris in the 1920's." --"The New York Times" "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."--"The New Republic" "A very good book, perhaps a great book." --"The Washington Star" "The best book of prose by a Canadian that I've ever read." --"Montreal Gazette" "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." --"The New York Times"

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