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The Shores of Bohemia - A Cape Cod Story (Paperback)
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The Shores of Bohemia - A Cape Cod Story (Paperback)
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Loot Price R383
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Their names are iconic: Eugene O’Neill, Willem de Kooning, Josef
and Anni Albers, Emma Goldman, Mary McCarthy, Edward Hopper, Walter
Gropius—the list goes on and on. Scorning the devastation that
industrialization had wrought on the nation’s workforce and
culture in the early decades of the twentieth century, they
gathered in the streets of Greenwich Village and on the beachfronts
of Cape Cod. They began as progressives but soon turned to
socialism, then communism. They founded theatres, periodicals, and
art schools. They formed editorial boards that met in beach shacks
and performed radical new plays in a shanty on the docks, where
they could see the ocean through cracks in the floor. They welcomed
the tremendous wave of talent fleeing Europe in the 1930s. At the
end of their era, in the 1960s, as the post-war economy boomed,
they took shelter in liberalism when the anti-capitalist movement
fragmented into other causes. John Taylor “Ike” Williams, who
married into the Cape’s artistic world and has spent half a
century talking about and walking along its shores with these
cultural and political luminaries, renders the twisting lives and
careers of a generation of staggering American thinkers and
creators. The Shores of Bohemia records a great set of shifts in
American culture and the ideas and arguments fuelled by drink,
infidelity, and competition that made for a fifty-year conversation
among intellectual leaders and creative revolutionaries. Together
they found a community as they created some of the great works of
the American Century. This is their story. Welcome to the party!
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Imprint: |
Picador USA
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Release date: |
May 2023 |
Authors: |
John Taylor Williams
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Dimensions: |
210 x 137 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
368 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-250-86716-2 |
Categories: |
Books
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LSN: |
1-250-86716-9 |
Barcode: |
9781250867162 |
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