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Vigdis
Mar 18, 2014 rated it really liked it
Det er ikke ofte jeg finner en bok som er så riktig til riktig tid som denne var. Den åpner med følgende avsnitt:
"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."

Vel, det er 2014 og ikke 19
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Charlotte
Feb 14, 2013 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: lost-generation
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 ...more
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Oct 17, 2011 rated it it was amazing
Shelves: paris-france
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Apr 18, 2013 rated it really liked it
Shelves: 1920s, paris
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Jul 29, 2014 rated it really liked it
Shelves: about-france
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