num_pages: 288
description: After three years as a student at the University of Virginia, Julian Green is now back home with his father and his sisters in the Paris of the 1920s. These are restless and tormented years for the young man. Torn by his emotions, and with his imagination in turmoil, he rejects art in favour of his career as a writer, and by 1929 has already published three highly acclaimed novels, a collection of short stories and a biography of Hawthorne.Mark, the student with whom he became passionately involved in America, comes to Paris, and their friendship continues. However, new liaisons, both platonic and sexual, come to obsess him, and physical beauty constantly threatens to overwhelm him. These years are the beginning of a life-long struggle between the spirit and the flesh that is to be the focus of so much of his subsequent work and which was to transform the confused adolescent into a celebrated man of letters.
language: English
title: Restless Youth: Autobiography Volume IV
titlecomplete: Restless Youth: Autobiography Volume IV (1922-1929)
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Marion Boyars