Skip to content
You are not logged in |Login  
     
Limit search to available items
Book Cover
book
BookBook
Author Tippins, Sherill.

Title February house / Sherill Tippins.

Publication Info. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2005.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  810.9 TIPPINS    Check Shelf
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  810.9 TIP    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  810.9974 TIPPINS    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  810.9 T49    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  810.9 TIP    Check Shelf
Description xiv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [291]-297) and index.
Contents The house on the hill : June-November 1940 -- The bawdy house : December 1940-February 1941 -- The house of genius : March-December 1941.
Summary The story of an extraordinary experiment in communal living, one involving young but already iconic writers--and the country's best-known burlesque performer--in a house in Brooklyn during 1940 and 1941. It was a fevered yearlong party fueled by the appetites of youth and by the shared sense of urgency to take action as artists in the months before America entered the war. In spite of the sheer intensity, the house was for its residents a creative crucible. Carson McCullers's two masterpieces, The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe, were born here. Gypsy Rose Lee, workmanlike by day, party girl by night, wrote her book The G-String Murders in her bedroom. W. H. Auden, who along with Benjamin Britten was being excoriated at home in England for absenting himself from the war, presided over the house like a peevish auntie, collecting rent money and dispensing romantic advice. And yet all the while he was composing some of the most important work of his career.
Subject Authors, American -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
McCullers, Carson, 1917-1967 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Britten, Benjamin, 1913-1976 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Bowles, Jane, 1917-1973 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Lee, Gypsy Rose, 1914-1970 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 -- Homes and haunts -- New York (State) -- New York.
American literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- History and criticism.
Literary landmarks -- New York (State) -- New York.
Communal living -- New York (State) -- New York.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life.
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.) -- Biography.
ISBN 061841911X
-->
Add a Review