Galahad and I Thought of Daisy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780374505882)

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 in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, 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.

"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


Author: Edmund Wilson
ISBN-10: 0374505888
ISBN-13: 9780374505882
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1963
Pages: 332
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.74d