Back then
two lives in 1950's New York
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Author
Contributions
- Kaplan, Justin. - Contributor
Publication
2002 - William Morrow, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
77,250 words, Guess
Page Count
309 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivebackthentwolives00bern
- ISBN-100060198559
- ISBN-139780060198558
- Goodreads1196249
- LibraryThing356970
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- Library of Congress Control Number2001059031
- OCLC Control Number48559219
- Better World Books9780060198558
- Open LibraryOL3956397M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- DDCB
- LCCPS3552.E728 Z463 2002
and 1 more
- LCCPS3552.E728Z463 2002
Description
"Novelist Anne Bernays, born in 1930, and biographer Justin Kaplan, born in 1925, both natives of New York, came of age in the 1950s, when the pent-up energies of the Depression years and World War II were at flood tide. Back Then, written in two separate voices, is the candid, anecdotal account of two children of privilege, one from New York's East Side, the other from the West Side, pursuing careers in publishing and eventually leaving to write their own books. They both sought self-knowledge and realization through years of psychoanalysis. They brushed shoulders with celebrities like William Faulkner, Somerset Maugham, Marlene Dietrich, and Anatole Broyard.". "Before Bernays and Kaplan met and married, each had enjoyed the sexual and social freedom that, along with the dark shadow of McCarthyism and the Cold War, was among the distinguishing marks of the 1950s. In many other respects, the story they tell could almost as well be about an earlier era."--BOOK JACKET.
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Genres
- Biography
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