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The Life Before Us (Paperback)
Romain Gary; Translated by Ralph Manheim; Afterword by James Laughlin
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Momo has been one of the ever-changing ragbag of whores' children
at Madame Rosa's boarding house in Paris ever since he can
remember. But when the check that pays for his keep no longer
arrives and as Madame Rosa becomes too ill to climb the stairs to
their apartment, he determines to support her any way he can. This
sensitive, slightly macabre love story between Momo and Madame Rosa
has a supporting cast of transvestites, pimps, and witch doctors
from Paris's immigrant slum, Belleville. Profoundly moving, The
Life Before Us won France's premier literary prize, the Prix
Goncourt.
A friendship struck in 1942 would last for forty-one years through
critical acclaim and rejection, commercial success and failure,
manic highs, bouts of depression, and serious and not-so-serious
liaisons. Tennessee Williams's and James Laughlin's letters provide
a window into the literary history of the mid-twentieth century.
Sylvia Beach was intimately acquainted with the expatriate and
visiting writers of the Lost Generation, a label that she never
accepted. Like moths of great promise, they were drawn to her
well-lighted bookstore and warm hearth on the Left Bank.
Shakespeare and Company evokes the zeitgeist of an era through its
revealing glimpses of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Scott
Fitzgerald, Sherwood Anderson, Andre Gide, Ezra Pound, Gertrude
Stein, Alice B. Toklas, D. H. Lawrence, and others already famous
or soon to be. In his introduction to this new edition, James
Laughlin recalls his friendship with Sylvia Beach. Like her
bookstore, his publishing house, New Directions, is considered a
cultural touchstone.
Christmas Poems is a pleasing and diverse selection of classic
holiday poems that goes all the way back to an eclogue of Virgil,
moves along to a wide range of authors such as Chaucer, Herbert,
Longfellow, Dickinson, Paul Dunbar, Rilke, Yeats, William Carlos
Williams, Robert Frost, E. E. Cummings, Kenneth Patchen, Thomas
Merton, Wallace Stevens, Marie Ponsot, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Frank
O Hara, Denise Levertov, and Bernadette Mayer. Beautifully
designed, this New Directions gem (originally published in the
1940s and reissued in the 1970s) rings with the deep sentiments of
the season and just the right splash of holiday cheer. Christmas
Poems comes with French flaps and is the perfect size for a
stocking stuffer. Christmas Poems was originally edited by Albert
M. Hayes and New Directions founder and publisher James Laughlin as
A Wreath of Christmas Poems, and published as part of the "Poets of
the Year" series in 1942. The collection was updated and revised in
1972, and selections for this newly revised 2008 edition have been
chosen by the editorial staff at New Directions."
"The moment of takeoff was ecstatic...joy. We left the ground I
with Christian mantras and a great sense of destiny, of being at
last on my true way after years of waiting and wondering..." With
these words, dated October 15. 1968, the late Father Thomas Merton
recorded the beginning of his fateful journey to the Orient. His
travels led him from Bangkok, through India to Ceylon, and back
again to Bangkok for his scheduled talk at a conference of Asian
monastic orders. There he unequivocally reaffirmed his Christian
vocation. His last journal entry was made on December 8, 1968, two
days before his untimely, accidental death. Amply illustrated with
photographs he himself took along the way and fully indexed, the
book also contains a glossary of Asian religious terms, a preface
by the Indian scholar Amiya Chakravarty, a foreword and postscript
by Brother Patrick Hart of the Abbey of Gethsemani, as well as
several appendices, among them the text of Merton's final address."
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