Mosaic
memoirs
1st ed.
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Author
Publication
1994 - Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
67,250 words, Guess
Page Count
269 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1428900M
- ISBN-100374213364
- OCLC Control Number29255469
- Library of Congress Control Number93040168
- Goodreads1201154
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- LibraryThing209200
Classifications
- DDC818/.5209
- LCCPS3521.I74 Z47 1994
Description
Mosaic: Memoirs, Lincoln Kirstein's long-awaited autobiography, is a compelling, often highly subjective evocation of his astonishing youth. The book's scenes move from the old mansions of Brahmin Boston to the waterfront bars of Brooklyn, George Gurdjieff's Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, and the brothels of Marrakesh. It culminates with thrilling suspense in 1933, when Kirstein visits Paris, hoping to lure George Balanchine to the United States. Kirstein shapes his numinous memories into the story of a young man's quest to fuse his various roles into a unified self. Mosaic is the epic history of his ultimately triumphant search for a vocation. As a chapter in the growth of modernism, and as a contribution to cultural history - and the history of assimilation - this superbly written, humorous, and candid book is unique and invaluable.
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