The Strange World of Willie Seabrook

[ex-library book with considerable wear, typical markings (incl. card pocket on front endpaper, tape marks/residue on both covers, "discarded" stamp on title page); jacket is edgeworn, spine lightly faded, narrow call number label on spine]. Marjorie Worthington, herself a novelist of some note, tells the story of her relationship to fellow author (and noted schizo-dipso) William Seabrook (1884-1945) -- described in his Wikipedia entry as an "occultist, explorer, traveler, cannibal, and journalist" -- who she met in Paris in 1926 and to whom she was married from 1935 to 1941. She provides a first-hand account of Seabrook's "triumphs and defeats, his charm, his pranks, his generosity, [and] his waywardness," while also describing his "besetting demons, the alcoholism and the sadism that led to her final separation from him." Among their circle of friends and intimates were numerous figures of the "Lost Generation," including Ford Madox Ford, Sinclair Lewis, Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Aldous Huxley, and Thomas Mann.

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Publisher: Harcourt, Brace & World, Inc.

Year: (c.1966)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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