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All passion spent : a realistic novel
- Author
- Brossard, Chandler, 1922-1993.
- Title
- All passion spent : a realistic novel / Chandler Brossard.
- Format
- Book
- Edition
- Popular Library edition.
- Published
- New York : Popular Library, 1954.
- Description
- 128 pages ; 18 cm.
- Series
- Popular library ; 626
- Notes
- Chandler Brossard (July 18, 1922-1993) was an American novelist, playwright, editor, and teacher. He began his career as a reporter for the Washington Post; at age nineteen he was hired by William Shawn to write for the New Yorker. His first published novel, "Who Walk In Darkness" (1952), focused on the bohemian life of 1940s Greenwich Village, and was sometimes referred to as the first Beat novel, which did not please him. Brossard also worked as an editor for Time, Look, and the American Mercury, and wrote literary criticism for Commentary, the Guardian, and the Nation. He taught and served as writer-in-residence at several colleges and universities, including the University of Birmingham (England), the New School for Social Research (New York), and Schiller College (Paris). He wrote three novels under the pseudonym Daniel Harper. His papers are housed at the University of Syracuse Library. Bound in illustrated paper wrappers, front wrapper with illustration of three women and three men happily inebriated, with man grabbing dress of blonde-haired woman in foreground, as top of dress begins to slip off of one of her shoulders. "Here is the intimate, revealing story of life and love in New York's Bohemian Underworld. ... Of hoodlums and strip-teasers on Park Avenue--artists and college girls in Greenwich Village."--The back wrapper. Berg Collection is restricted access; request permission in holding division.
- Summary
- Paul Hackett's life has been bounded by conventional morality until he comes to New York and meets lovely but corrupt Erika Rains. Paul soon leaves his wife for Erika, and plunges with her into a weird, surrealistic world of violent pleasures and uninhibited lovers ... until Erika's neurotic mother comes to town. Then Paul finds out what kind of girl Erika really is, and where their desperate affair is taking them.