Garrets and Pretenders: Bohemian Life in America from Poe to Kerouac

by Albert Parry

Book Overview

Hailed as "thoroughly fascinating" and "an excellent account" by The New York Times, this chronicle recaptures the vibrantly eccentric lifestyles of generations of free-spirited Americans. Its evocative profiles range from Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, and Ambrose Bierce to lesser-known nonconformists and iconoclasts. Hoboes, starving poets, suffragettes, and artists' models populate these pages, forming a bustling panoply of banquets, suicides,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0486486052
• ISBN13: 9780486486055
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.4"