MEMOIRS OF MONTPARNASSE by Glassco, John - 1973

Toronto: Oxford University Press. Good. 1973. Softcover. 0195402022 . Softcover 1973 edition. Used condition. Cover has some edge and corner wear, edge rubbing, light corner curling, a few creases. Pages are clean and intact, page edges are a little uneven (likely bound this way). "Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without cares. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time. " [276-osl]; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .