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Det er ikke ofte jeg finner en bok som er så riktig til riktig tid som denne var. Den åpner med følgende avsnitt:
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"Winter in Montreal 1927. Student life at McGill University had depressed me to a point where I could not go on. I was learning nothing; the curriculum was designed at best to equip me as a professor destined to lead others in due course on the same round of lifeless facts. I was only seventeen and had the sense of throwing my time and my youth into a void."
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This is a "sleeper" of a book. I was introduced to Glassco many years ago by a CBC (canadian radio) program, starring Judy LaMarsh, who read the book over several days. That's all it took to entrance me & make me want to know all I could about the time of the writing: Paris in the 1920's and the players of that era. Fortunately for me, much has and continues to be written on the subject, fiction & non. Many of the writers (Stein, Hemingway,Joyce), and their works have been dissected so many time
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