Description
Contents: In Paris (Much of the course of American literature was shaped on the banks of the Seine. Horizons visits Paris with an assortment of writers as guides), American Writers in Paris (Everyone was there, of couse, in the 1920s. But so were James Fenimore Cooper in the nineteenth century, Edith Wharton after 1907 and William Styron in the 1950s), At Gertrude Stein’s in Paris (Sherwood Anderson was too scared to show up. Ezra Pound was flatly discouraged), Dining with Alice in Paris (Alice B. Tokias), Re-creating Stein in Paris (From a physical and professional low point in her life, actress Pat Carroll rebounds brilliantly with a one-woman tour de force), Tracking Hemingway in Paris (The great writer’s posthumous memoir guides an American couple’s walking tour of Paris), Saroyan in Paris (The author avoided Picasso, left Giacometti’s sketches in the restaurant, and lost his shirt at chemin de fer), Giving the Arts for the Holidays (An eclectric roster of unusual holiday gifts), Fifteen Years of Photo-Realism (The art collector who coined the term presents a bold claim for the importance of paintings that look more real than the real thing), The Glory That Was Macedonia (The biggest archaeological find in years was a royal tomb that may have held the bones of Philip II, father of Alexander the Great. Now some of its treasures can be seen in the United States), Philip’s Tomb: The Controversy
Issue: November 1980
Condition: Very Good