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035 $a(OCoLC)70245277
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050 4 $aPS255.N5$bT57 2006
100 1 $aTippins, Sherill.
245 10 $aFebruary house /$cSherill Tippins.
250 $a1st Mariner Books ed.
260 $aBoston :$bHoughton Mifflin,$c2006
300 $axvi, 317 p. :$bill. ;$c21 cm.
500 $a"A Mariner book."
500 $aOriginally published in hardback, 2005.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [291]-297) and index.
505 00 $tThe house on the hill : June-November 1940 --$tThe bawdy house : December 1940-February 1941 --$tThe house of genius : March-December 1941.
520 $aThis volume presents the story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers--and the country's best-known burlesque performer--in a house in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born here. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her bedroom. W. H. Auden, who along with Benjamin Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war, presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aAuthors, English$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
600 10 $aMcCullers, Carson,$d1917-1967$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
600 10 $aAuden, W. H.$q(Wystan Hugh),$d1907-1973$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
600 10 $aBritten, Benjamin,$d1913-1976$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
600 10 $aBowles, Jane Auer,$d1917-1973$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
600 10 $aLee, Gypsy Rose,$d1914-1970$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
600 10 $aBowles, Paul,$d1910-1999$xHomes and haunts$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$zNew York (State)$zNew York$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aEnglish literature$y20th century$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aLiterary landmarks$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aCommunal living$zNew York (State)$zNew York.
650 0 $aAuthors, American$y20th century$vBiography.
650 0 $aAuthors, English$y20th century$vBiography.
651 0 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$xIntellectual life.
651 0 $aBrooklyn (New York, N.Y.)$vBiography.
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