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The Bohemians

Mark Twain and the San Francisco Writers Who Reinvented American Literature

ISBN-13: 9780143126966

Contributor(s): Ben Tarnoff

Subject: History of the Americas

Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books (usa)

Publication Date: 19-03-2015

Format: Paperback

Availability: Out of stock

£22.99

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About the book

1860s San Francisco. The Gold Rush has ended; the Civil War threatens to tear apart the country. The bards of the moment are the Bohemians: a young Mark Twain, fleeing the draft and seeking adventure; literary golden boy Bret Harte; struggling gay poet Charles Warren Stoddard; and beautiful, haunted Ina Coolbrith, poet and protectorate of the group. Ben Tarnoff's elegant, atmospheric history reveals how these four pioneering western writers would together create a new American literature, unfettered by the heavy European influence that dominated the East.