My Life & Loves: The Complete Grove Press Edition, Five Volumes In One
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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Few memoirs in the English language have scandalized, fascinated, and endured quite like My Life and Loves, the outrageously candid autobiography of Frank Harris — Irish-American editor, journalist, and self-proclaimed man of genius — whose life swept across the American frontier, the drawing rooms of Victorian London, and the literary circles of fin-de-siècle Europe. This complete Grove Press edition, uniting all five volumes in one definitive collection, chronicles Harris's relentless pursuit of power, passion, and intellectual greatness, presenting a raw and unfiltered account of a life lived entirely on its own terms, from cattle drives in Texas to the editorship of the Saturday Review, where he published the likes of Shaw, Wells, and Beerbohm. Harris writes with a swaggering, unapologetic bravado that is equal parts infuriating and irresistible, and his memoir stands as a landmark of confessional literature — a work that anticipates the sexual frankness of Henry Miller and the name-dropping audacity of a literary age that has since vanished. Banned for decades and circulated underground before Grove Press brought it into the open, My Life and Loves is as much a document of its era as it is a monument to one man's extraordinary — and extraordinarily inflated — ego. Whether Harris is entirely truthful is beside the point; the question the book leaves burning is whether any life, so defiantly lived and so brazenly told, can ever truly be contained within the pages of a single volume.
Author: Frank Harris
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few memoirs in the English language have scandalized, fascinated, and endured quite like My Life and Loves, the outrageously candid autobiography of Frank Harris — Irish-American editor, journalist, and self-proclaimed man of genius — whose life swept across the American frontier, the drawing rooms of Victorian London, and the literary circles of fin-de-siècle Europe. This complete Grove Press edition, uniting all five volumes in one definitive collection, chronicles Harris's relentless pursuit of power, passion, and intellectual greatness, presenting a raw and unfiltered account of a life lived entirely on its own terms, from cattle drives in Texas to the editorship of the Saturday Review, where he published the likes of Shaw, Wells, and Beerbohm. Harris writes with a swaggering, unapologetic bravado that is equal parts infuriating and irresistible, and his memoir stands as a landmark of confessional literature — a work that anticipates the sexual frankness of Henry Miller and the name-dropping audacity of a literary age that has since vanished. Banned for decades and circulated underground before Grove Press brought it into the open, My Life and Loves is as much a document of its era as it is a monument to one man's extraordinary — and extraordinarily inflated — ego. Whether Harris is entirely truthful is beside the point; the question the book leaves burning is whether any life, so defiantly lived and so brazenly told, can ever truly be contained within the pages of a single volume.