{"product_id":"9780374505882","title":"Galahad and I Thought of Daisy","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eGalahad and I Thought of Daisy\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Edmund Wilson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson's three novels, \u003ci\u003eI thought of Daisy\u003c\/i\u003e, published together with his short story \"Galahad.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, Edmund Wilson’s \u003ci\u003eI Thought of Daisy\u003c\/i\u003e  tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s, and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout, including John Dos Passos and Wilson's lover, Edna St. Vincent Millay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"What needs to be [said] is how good, if ungainly, \u003ci\u003eDaisy \u003c\/i\u003eis, how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine, of lamplit islands  where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real, and his displacement is a real loss.\" - John  Updike\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374505882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40593467310286,"sku":"9780374505882","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374505882","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}