Galahad and I Thought of Daisy

By Edmund Wilson

Book Overview

From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story "Galahad."

Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson's I Thought of Daisy tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout, including John Dos Passos and Wilson's lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay.

"What needs to be said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine, of lamplit islands where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss." - John Updike

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374505888
• ISBN13: 9780374505882
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 332 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.0" x 8.0"