Remembering Paris 1958-1960: A Memoir

by Sandra Hochman

Overview

A spiritual successor to Ernest Hemingway's A Moveable Feast

Turner Publishing is proud to present another heartfelt memoir from the early life of the novelist, poet, and activist, Sandra Hochman. Following Hochman's Loving Robert Lowell that revealed the details of her affair with one of America's greatest poets, Remembering Paris 1958-1960, A Memoir chronicles Sandra's years before meeting Lowell, her first teenaged love and subsequent tumultuous marriage to an internationally famous concert violinist at the age of 21, her life as an American expatriate, and finding her creative voice in the City of Lights in the middle of the 20th century.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781683365341
Publisher:	TURNER PUB CO
Publication date:	10/03/2017
Pages:	256
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.60(d)

About the Author

Activist, socialite, and artist, Sandra Hochman is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated poet with six volumes of poetry, and the author of six novels with three forthcoming literary works from Turner Publishing. She also authored two nonfiction books and co-directed a 1973 documentary, Year of the Woman with Gloria Steinem, currently enjoying a renaissance. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, and she was a columnist for Harpers Bazaar. She also ran her own foundation, "You're an Artist Too" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to teach poetry and song writing to children ages 7–12 for fifteen years.

Read an Excerpt

"I only knew his name was Ivry Gitlis and he was a violinist, and all he knew was that my name was Sandy. And he had my phone number. And that was what made it exciting. We were strangers who were attracted to each other. It crossed my mind that I had found myself flirting with my father’s worst nightmare—a foreigner, a concert violinist wearing sandals and a cape, an aging bohemian. My father, dear old bourgeois daddy, with a daughter with bizarre ideas of being a poet and even more bizarre ideas of not marrying into wealth, would have been furious to know I was attracted to a gypsy musician."