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Soul Mates of the Lost Generation - The Letters of John Dos Passos and Crystal Ross (Hardcover)
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Soul Mates of the Lost Generation - The Letters of John Dos Passos and Crystal Ross (Hardcover)
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Soul Mates of the Lost Generation recovers for contemporary readers
one of the last great collections of letters of the Jazz Age. It is
the correspondence between the pioneering novelist John Dos Passos
and a young woman named Crystal Ross, to whom he was engaged and
who reveals herself as one of the truly daring, vivacious spirits
of that extraordinary time. Before his passing in 2015, Ross's son,
the esteemed literary scholar Lewis M. Dabney, completed a dual
biography of the couple's time together based on this rare
correspondence. The bulk of the letters were written between 1923
and 1928, during Dos Passos's first major creative period. The
letters relate scenes from the pair's life in the rich culture of
Paris in the 1920s and their association with Hemingway, the
Fitzgeralds, and other figures of literary modernism. Engaged in
1924, Dos Passos and Ross often corresponded about their ongoing
work and the work of others in Dos Passos's circle. Dos Passos
introduced his fiancee to Hemingway, and the couple accompanied him
and other writers on an early trip to Pamplona, the setting of The
Sun Also Rises, in which Ross makes a cameo appearance. This
collection of never-before-seen letters offers rare insights into
the life of the influential modernist author of Manhattan Transfer,
The 42nd Parallel, and The Big Money, and into that of a remarkably
independent, fascinating woman.
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