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The Tender Hour of Twilight
Richard Seaver
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Description for The Tender Hour of Twilight
Hardcover. Very good copy in near fine dustwrapper.
First edition
Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafes bustled, and the Parisian women found American men exotic and heroic. There was an Irishman in Paris writing plays and novels unlike anything anyone had ever read - but hardly anyone was reading them. There were others, too, doing equivalently groundbreaking work for equivalently small audiences. So when his friends launched a literary magazine, "Merlin", Seaver knew this was his calling: to bring the work of the likes of Samuel ... Read more
First edition
Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafes bustled, and the Parisian women found American men exotic and heroic. There was an Irishman in Paris writing plays and novels unlike anything anyone had ever read - but hardly anyone was reading them. There were others, too, doing equivalently groundbreaking work for equivalently small audiences. So when his friends launched a literary magazine, "Merlin", Seaver knew this was his calling: to bring the work of the likes of Samuel ... Read more
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Farrar Straus and Giroux
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780374273781
SKU
KEX0303317
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
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