The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age

by Richard Seaver

From Beckett to Burroughs, The Story of O to The Autobiography of Malcolm X , an iconic literary troublemaker tells the colorful stories behind the stories Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the caf s bustled, and the Parisian women found American men exotic and heroic. There was an Irishman in Paris writing plays and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374273782
• ISBN13: 9780374273781
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.3" x 9.1"