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Bezig met laden... In Gatsby's Shadow: The Story of Charles Macomb Flandraudoor Larry Haeg
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In the closing decades of the nineteenth century Minnesota produced three young men of great talent who each went east to become writers. Two of them became famous: F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. This is the story of the third man: Charles Macomb Flandrau. Flandrau, a model of style and worldly sophistication and destined, almost everyone agreed, for greatness, was among the most talented young writers of his generation. His short stories about Harvard in the 1890's were called "the first realistic description of undergraduate life in American colleges" and sold out Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Oh how I wish someone would publish an edition of Charlie's correspondence. Haeg says that Charlie approached letter-writing as an art form.
He had such a wicked, nasty tongue. He referred to three dowager women friends as "sexually unemployed." They were "fat females in tight black silk dresses that made little squeaking sounds in the upper abdominal regions." He was an alcoholic, and Haeg tells us that alcohol "revealed his cruel, malicious streak." The youthful Charlie shied away from Radcliffe women--"all alike and all unendurable."
One final word from Charlie. Oh God, Charlie, how I relate: "Grace is really almost a brilliant person, but in all sincerity, at the age of almost fifty, I no longer give a damn about brilliancy." ( )