![]() ![]() ![]() In it, he describes meeting various celebrities who were living in or passing through Paris at the time, such as James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. ![]() The book is presented as a genuine memoir, although Glassco had lightly fictionalized some aspects of the work. Their three-year stay formed the basis of Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse (1970), a description of expatriate life in Paris during the 1920s. The two settled in the Montparnasse district of Paris which was then extremely popular amongst the literary intelligentsia. John Glassco (1909-1981) was a Canadian poet, memoirist and novelist.īorn in Montreal, where he attended McGill University without graduating, Glassco left for Paris in February 1928 with his friend, Graeme Taylor, when he was nineteen years old. ![]()
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