{"product_id":"the-man-who-would-marry-susan-sontag-and-other-intimate-literary-portraits-of-the-bohemian-era-paperback","title":"The Man Who Would Marry Susan Sontag: And Other Intimate Literary Portraits of the Bohemian Era - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEdward Field\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Long before Stonewall, young Air Force veteran Edward Field, fresh from combat in WWII, threw himself into New York's literary bohemia, searching for fulfillment as a gay man and poet. In this vivid account of his avant-garde years in Greenwich Village and the bohemian outposts of Paris's Left Bank and Tangier--where you could write poetry, be radical, and be openly gay--Field opens the closet door to reveal, as never been seen before, some of the most important writers of his time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Here are young, beautiful Susan Sontag sitting at the feet of her idol Alfred Chester, who shrewdly plotted to marry her; May Swenson and her two loves; Paul and Jane Bowles in their ambiguous marriage; Frank O'Hara in and out of bed; Fritz Peters, the anointed son of Gurdjieff; and James Baldwin, Isabel Miller (\u003ci\u003ePatience and Sarah\u003c\/i\u003e), Tobias Schneebaum, Robert Friend, and many others. With its intimate portraits, Field's memoir brings back a forgotten era--postwar bohemia--bawdy, comical, romantic, sad, and heroic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eEdward Field's poetry collections include the Lamont Award-winning \u003ci\u003eStand Up, Friend, With Me;\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003eCounting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems, 1963-1992, \u003c\/i\u003e which won a Lambda Literary Award; and \u003ci\u003eA Frieze for a Temple of Love.\u003c\/i\u003e Field is the editor of the \u003ci\u003eAlfred Chester Newsletter, \u003c\/i\u003eand with his partner, Neil Derrick, is coauthor of the novel \u003ci\u003eThe Villagers. \u003c\/i\u003eField received a Bill Whitehead Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005. He lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 302\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 9 x 6.04 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 31, 2007\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47467921768701,"sku":"9780299213244","price":32.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/3414\/0157\/files\/TkZNaytSUEh5WVFZRXhmMGdIcXFlUT09.webp?v=1777281472","url":"https:\/\/booktolia.com\/products\/the-man-who-would-marry-susan-sontag-and-other-intimate-literary-portraits-of-the-bohemian-era-paperback","provider":"booktolia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}