The Thirties: From Notebooks And Diaries Of The Period
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the intersection of personal memoir and social chronicle, Edmund Wilson's The Thirties stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching records of Depression-era America ever committed to the page. Drawn from Wilson's own notebooks and diaries, this extraordinary volume captures the turbulent decade through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds — documenting everything from the grinding poverty of the working class to the intellectual ferment of New York's cultural elite, rendered with a journalist's precision and a novelist's eye for telling detail. Edited and introduced by the distinguished biographer Leon Edel, The Thirties presents Wilson at his most candid and restless, moving between literary gossip, political observation, and deeply personal reflection with characteristic authority. Wilson's prose is muscular and immediate, refusing the comfortable distance of retrospection in favour of raw, in-the-moment testimony — a quality that transforms these private jottings into essential historical literature. Readers who enter this world will find themselves asking not just what it meant to live through the Thirties, but what it means to bear witness at all.
Author: Edmund Wilson
Format: Hardback
Published: 1980, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Wear and tear with damage
Pages: Good
At the intersection of personal memoir and social chronicle, Edmund Wilson's The Thirties stands as one of the most vivid and unflinching records of Depression-era America ever committed to the page. Drawn from Wilson's own notebooks and diaries, this extraordinary volume captures the turbulent decade through the eyes of one of the twentieth century's greatest literary minds — documenting everything from the grinding poverty of the working class to the intellectual ferment of New York's cultural elite, rendered with a journalist's precision and a novelist's eye for telling detail. Edited and introduced by the distinguished biographer Leon Edel, The Thirties presents Wilson at his most candid and restless, moving between literary gossip, political observation, and deeply personal reflection with characteristic authority. Wilson's prose is muscular and immediate, refusing the comfortable distance of retrospection in favour of raw, in-the-moment testimony — a quality that transforms these private jottings into essential historical literature. Readers who enter this world will find themselves asking not just what it meant to live through the Thirties, but what it means to bear witness at all.