The Paris Diary & The New York Diary 1951-1961 (Paperback, New edition)

When "The Paris Diary" exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Rorem's self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written between 1951 and 1955, was also a mirror of the times, depicting the now vanished milieu of Cocteau, Eluard, Gide, Landowska, Boulez, the Vicomtesse de Noailles, and others whose paths crossed with Rorem's in such settings as Paris, Morocco, and Italy. "The New York Diary," published the following year, pictured the period between 1956 and 1960, when Rorem had returned to America. The diaries marked the beginnings of Gay Liberation, not because Rorem made a special issue of his sexuality, but because he did not; rather, he wrote of his affairs frankly and unashamedly. A casualness informs each sensual entry, and the overall tone is at once bratty and brilliant, insecure and vain, loving and cultured, but, above all, honest and entertaining.

General

Imprint:	Da Capo Press Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	March 1998
First published:	April 1998
Authors:	Ned Rorem
Dimensions:	202 x 129 x 26mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	432
Edition:	New edition
ISBN-13:	978-0-306-80838-8
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Music > Composers & musicians Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gay & Lesbian studies > Gay studies (Gay men) Books > Biography > General Books > Music > Composers & musicians Promotions
LSN:	0-306-80838-2
Barcode:	9780306808388

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