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Author:

Williams, John Taylor, author.

Title:

The shores of Bohemia : a Cape Cod story, 1910-1960 / John Taylor Williams.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

FarrarStraus and Giroux,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xvii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Bohemianism--Cape Cod--Cape Cod--History--20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.)--Anecdotes.--Anecdotes.
Arts--Cape Cod (Mass.)--Cape Cod (Mass.)--History--20th century--Anecdotes.
Cape Cod (Mass.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
Cape Cod (Mass.)--Social life and customs--20th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Spring -- Arcadia -- Greenwich Village and Provincetown -- The 1913 Armory Show -- The Provincetown Players -- The Masses -- The war to end all wars -- Reds! -- The Jazz Age -- Summer -- Bound Brook Island -- The Popular Front -- Dodie -- Country life --World War II -- Fall -- Tiger cat -- The abstractors -- The crimes of Stalin -- The Lost Generation's children -- Provincetown either way -- Winter -- Mardi -- The new, new Bauhaus -- Joan's Beach -- New York Jew -- Eden's end.

Summary:

"The history of a generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a Bohemian utopia on the windblown shores of Cape Cod"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

0374262756
9780374262754

LCCN:

2021059691

Locations:

TYPH572 -- Cedar Rapids Public Library (Cedar Rapids)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

S1PD771 -- Johnston Public Library (Johnston)