{"product_id":"galantire-the-lost-generations-forgotten-man-9780999100202","title":"Galantière: The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eLewis Galantière guided Hemingway through his first years in Paris, when the author was unknown and desperate for recognition. He helped James Joyce and Sylvia Beach launch \u003cem\u003eUlysses\u003c\/em\u003e; started John Houseman in his theatrical career; and collaborated with Antoine de Saint-Exupéry in the writing of \u003cem\u003eWind, Sand and Stars\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eFlight to Arras\u003c\/em\u003e. He was a playwright, a literary and cultural critic and an author, Federal Reserve Bank economist throughout the Great Depression, director of the French Branch of the Office of War Information at the onset of World War II, ACLU Director during the McCarthyism-fraught 1950s, Counselor to Radio Free Europe and, at a crucial time in its history, president of PEN America, the writers advocacy organization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eYet, today, few know his name and, to those who do, he is a cipher...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd that was precisely his intent. The son of Jewish Latvian immigrants at a time of rampant anti-semitism, Lewis spent his first thirteen years in Chicago's tenements and did not complete grade school. Yet, by his early twenties, Lewis had convinced the world that he was the apostate son of French Catholic parents, and had earned degrees from French and German universities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGalantière, The Lost Generation's Forgotten Man\u003c\/em\u003e, is both a historical chronicle providing rare insights into the lives of leading twentieth century figures (with previously unpublished personal correspondence from Hadley Hemingway and Alfred Knopf), and a meticulously researched biography. \u003cem\u003eGalantière\u003c\/em\u003e presents, for the first time, the seemingly magical story of the self-fabricated and fully-realized man, Lewis Galantière.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Mark Lurie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Overlook Press LLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/19\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.33lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.92d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780999100202\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2018 pg. 159\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Overlook Press LLC","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40579663921267,"sku":"9.781E+12","price":24.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a00a6ce6-d753-4c83-96f8-94ebfa878e2e.jpg?v=1668523189","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/galantire-the-lost-generations-forgotten-man-9780999100202","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}