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Kafka was the rage : a Greenwich Village memoir

by Anatole Broyard

This memoir chronicles the cultural and intellectual life of post-war Greenwich Village. It describes the local literary scene in the late 1940s, the experience of running a bookshop, and encounters with notable artists and writers of the era.

Accession 34860 ISBN 0517596180 Publisher Carol Southern Books
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