The Best Times: An Informal Memoir, by John Dos Passos
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A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines. Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt—they are his beloved friends. Spain, the French Riviera, Paris, Persia, the Caucasus—they are his beloved footpaths.
The Best Times: An Informal Memoir, by John Dos Passos- Amazon Sales Rank: #1113028 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-12
- Released on: 2015-05-12
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review “In portraying his old friends with both their flaws and their virtues, regarding them not as heroes or villains or competitors but talented colleagues, he gives us the best ‘album’ I know of the literary figures of the twenties. He does not attempt to do full-scale portraits of them, any more than he does of himself but sharp, deft sketches that convey a real sense of the person.” —The Atlantic
About the Author John Roderigo Dos Passos (1896–1970) was a writer, painter, and political activist. He wrote over forty books, including plays, poetry, novels, biographies, histories, and memoirs. He crafted over four hundred drawings, watercolors, and other artworks. Dos Passos considered himself foremost a writer of contemporary chronicles. He preferred the moniker of “chronicler” because he was happiest working at the edge of fiction and nonfiction. Both genres benefited from his mastery of observation—his “camera eye”—and his sense of historical context. Dos Passos sought to ground fiction in historic detail and working-class, realistic dialogue. He invented a multimedia format of songs, newsreels, biographies, third-person fictional narrative, and first-person semi-autobiographical narrative snapshots to convey the frenzy of America’s industrialism and urbanism in the twentieth century. His most memorable fiction—Three Soldiers (1921), Manhattan Transfer (1925), and the U.S.A. trilogy (1938)—possesses the authority of history and the allure of myth. Likewise, he sought to vitalize nonfiction history and reportage with the colors, sounds, and smells documented on his journeys across the globe.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A stellar memoir by a key member of the Lost Generation. Well worth the investment. By Scott J. Rossi I purchased my copy of "The Best Times" by the great writer, John Dos Passos, last year, and it lived up to my expectations, and even exceeded them. John Dos Passos was a fixture of the Lost Generation and had close ties to his counterparts, Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald and his wife Zelda. Through the power of his talent to write Dos Passos brings these great friends of his to life, and takes the readers of this book on a journey through the times he lived in. He speaks of his very first meeting with Hemingway, Scott and Zelda, and speaks with how his friendship with Hemingway came apart because as he put it they grew up by their thirties and in the process grew apart. Surprisingly these two great writers who were once best friends in life managed to correspond and stay in touch over the years, and they never lost their love and admiration or each other. Like Hemingway, Dos Passos was a world traveler, and you will enjoy his trips to Europe and later to Spain, and he brings his destinations and its people to life for his readers. I highly recommend this book. It serves as a nice counterpart to Hemingway's own memoir, "A Moveable Feast".
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. His experiences during war were cool and clear which suggests that he had to distance ... By Shawn Sudia-Skehan I have always admired this author's work; reading this memoir made me respect and admire him as a man. His experiences during war were cool and clear which suggests that he had to distance himself from them in order to deal with them. The evolution of his friendships with Fitzgerald, Hemingway, the Murphys was fascinating - I just wish he could have invested his memories with a wee bit more feeling.
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