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From Kirkus Reviews Brilliant, funny, penetrating observations on life and culture in N.Y.C. after WW II from critic Broyard, who died of cancer in 1990 (Intoxicated by My Illness, 1992). Nineteen forty-six was a good time--perhaps the best time-- in the twentieth century,'' writes Broyard, and the reader wishes that the critic were still here to write a dozen more books just like this wonderful one to explain further exactly what he means. Broyard was 26 the year after the war, and his entree to then housing-scarce Greenwich Village took the form of moving in with the difficult and challenging Sheri Donatti, enigmatic abstract painter, wearer of no underpants, and proteg‚e of Ana‹s Nin. Comedy both ribald and poignant follows as Broyard tells the tale of his brief life with Sheri--including, along the way, sketches of his meetings with the likes of W.H. Auden (whom Sheri bumps into- -literally), Erich Fromm, Meyer Schapiro, Delmore Schwartz and others, including Nin herself ( Her lipstick was precise, her eyebrows shaved off and penciled in, giving the impression,'' remarks Broyard, that she had written her own face''). A break with Sheri is inevitable but, by the time it comes

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Author

Anatole Broyard

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780679781264

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.73 / 5 (1,232 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14