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      Galahad and I Thought of Daisy

      by Edmund Wilson
      Published
      Feb 1963
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      General Fiction General Fiction
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      332
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      From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, I thought of Daisy, published together with his short story "Galahad."

      Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson's I Thought of Daisy tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life, and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout, including John Dos Passos and Wilson's lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay.

      Also included in this volume is Wilson's short story "Galahad," about the sexual awakening of a young boy at prep school.
      "What needs to be [said] is how good, if ungainly, Daisy is, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine, of lamplit islands where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss." - John Updike

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      Jan 1963 Farrar, Straus and Giroux ISBN 0374505888
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