Partisans
Subtitle: marriage, politics, and betrayal among the New York intellectuals
By: David Laskin.
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Partisan review (New York, N.Y. : 1934); New York review of books; American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism; Politics and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Intellectuals -- New York (State) -- New York -- Biography; Women and literature -- New York (State) -- New York; Women intellectuals -- United States -- Biography; Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography; Women authors, American -- Biography; New York (N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century; New York (N.Y.) -- In literature
Genres: Biography.
Description: "From the Depression era of the 1930s through the Vietnam War of the 1960s, a generation of "public intellectuals" thrived in America. They were poets, novelists, critics, and commentators who were also friends, rivals, spouses, and lovers. Their personal relationships were as passionate as their writing. In their poems, novels, and essays they debated one another while producing work that was brilliant and often controversial.

Among them are such influential writers as Mary McCarthy, Edmund Wilson, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, and Hannah Arendt."--BOOK JACKET.

"While the pages of Partisan Review were a forum for political and intellectual controversy, its offices were a hotbed of gossip, intrigue, back-stabbing, and sex. Possessed of enormous ambition, talent, and appetite, the PR circle was an intense, self-enclosed society where creative energy often gave way to self-destructive impulses, alcoholism, and adultery.

For women of talent, beauty, and ambition, this literary circle offered unprecedented professional opportunity but also exacted a terrible emotional price."--BOOK JACKET. "Amidst all the turmoil - or perhaps because of it - this brilliant circle continued to produce important work, from McCarthy's scandalous novel The Group to Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem, which caused a firestorm of controversy."--BOOK JACKET.

"Written with keen insight into both the literature and the personalities behind it, Partisans is an illuminating portrait of a time when politics and poetry were all-consuming passions."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-308) and index.