The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature by Tarnoff, Ben

The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America--and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity...
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Author: Ben Tarnoff
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The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature by Tarnoff, Ben

The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

$50.20

The Bohemians: Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

$50.20
Author: Ben Tarnoff
Format: Paperback
Language: English
An extraordinary portrait of a fast-changing America--and the Western writers who gave voice to its emerging identity

At once an intimate portrait of an unforgettable group of writers and a history of a cultural revolution in America, The Bohemians reveals how a brief moment on the far western frontier changed our culture forever. Beginning with Mark Twain's arrival in San Francisco in 1863, this group biography introduces readers to the other young eccentric writers seeking to create a new American voice at the country's edge--literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protector of the group. Ben Tarnoff's elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering writers helped spread the Bohemian movement throughout the world, transforming American literature along the way.

"Tarnoff's book sings with the humor and expansiveness of his subjects' prose, capturing the intoxicating atmosphere of possibility that defined, for a time, America's frontier." -- The New Yorker

"Rich hauls of historical research, deeply excavated but lightly borne.... Mr. Tarnoff's ultimate thesis is a strong one, strongly expressed: that together these writers 'helped pry American literature away from its provincial origins in New England and push it into a broader current'." -- Wall Street Journal

Author: Ben Tarnoff
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 02/24/2015
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780143126966


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 07/19/2015 pg. 24

About the Author
BEN TARNOFF is the author of A Counterfeiter's Paradise. He has written for the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle, among other publications. He lives in New York City.

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