Exile's Return: A Literary Odyssey of the 1920's. Introduction by Leon Edel, illustrated with contemporary photographs.
New York: The Limited Editions Club, 1981. Limited Edition. A Fine tight copy without the glassine cover in a Fine slipcase. One of 2000 numbered copies and signed by both Cowley and photographer Bernice Abbott. Original prospectus laid-in. Malcolm Cowley's Exile's Return was first published in 1934 by Viking Press. Subtitled "A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s", the book explores the development of literature in the early twentieth century. Cowley's work includes his own personal narratives about his relationships with many of the best writers from the start of the century. Exile's Return is particularly concerned with the movement of these authors out of America after the Great War, and then back again in the 1920s. This work leads up to the 1930s and allows us to see how the 30s understood their preceding decades. The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. As Cowley details in this intimate, anecdotal portrait, in renouncing traditional life and literature, they expanded the boundaries of art. Item #22934
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