An edition of February house (2005)

February house

the story of W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, under one roof in wartime America

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An edition of February house (2005)

February house

the story of W.H. Auden, Carson McCullers, Jane and Paul Bowles, Benjamin Britten, and Gypsy Rose Lee, under one roof in wartime America

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February House is the irresistible story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers -- and the country's best-known burlesque performer -- in a house at 7 Middagh Street in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity of life at 7 Middagh, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born, bibulously, in Brooklyn. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her Middagh Street bedroom under the intensely personalized tutelage of editor extraordinaire George Davis. Auden, who along with Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war, presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career. Sherill Tippins's February House, enlivened by primary sources and an unforgettable story, masterfully recreates daily life at the most fertile and improbable live-in salon of the twentieth century. - Jacket flap.

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English
Pages
317

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Table of Contents

The house on the hill : June-November 1940
The bawdy house : December 1940-February 1941
The house of genius : March-December 1941
Epilogue

Edition Notes

Subtitle from jacket.

Published in
Boston, New York
Copyright Date
2005

Classifications

Library of Congress
PS255.N5 T57 2005, PS255.N5T57 2005

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
xiv, 317 p.
Number of pages
317
Dimensions
24 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25930629M
ISBN 10
061841911X
ISBN 13
9780618419111
LCCN
2004060919
OCLC/WorldCat
57405991

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