{"product_id":"9781429949897","title":"The Tender Hour of Twilight: Paris in the '50s, New York in the '60s: A Memoir of Publishing's Golden Age","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Beckett to Burroughs, \u003ci\u003eThe Story of O\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Malcolm X\u003c\/i\u003e, an iconic literary troublemaker tells the colorful stories behind the stories\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafés bustled, and the Parisian women found American men exotic and heroic. There was an Irishman in Paris writing plays and novels unlike anything anyone had ever read—but hardly anyone was reading them. There were others, too, doing equivalently groundbreaking work for equivalently small audiences. So when his friends launched a literary magazine, \u003ci\u003eMerlin, \u003c\/i\u003eSeaver knew this was his calling: to bring the work of the likes of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean Genet to the world. The Korean War ended all that—the navy had paid for college and it was time to pay them back. After two years at sea, Seaver washed ashore in New York City with a beautiful French wife and a wider sense of the world than his compatriots. The only young literary man with the audacity to match Seaver's own was Barney Rosset of Grove Press. A remarkable partnership was born, one that would demolish U.S. censorship laws with inimitable joie de vivre as Seaver and Rosset introduced American readers to \u003ci\u003eLady Chatterly's Lover\u003c\/i\u003e, Henry Miller, \u003ci\u003eStory of O\u003c\/i\u003e, William Burroughs, \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Malcolm X, \u003c\/i\u003eand more. As publishing hurtles into its uncertain future, \u003ci\u003eThe Tender Hour of Twilight\u003c\/i\u003e is a stirring reminder of the passion, the vitality, and even the glamour of a true life in literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47154118426864,"sku":"9781429949897","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429949897_p0.jpg?v=1769902571","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429949897","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}