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Fifty Stories

The Crazy Hunter

In both her art and her life, Kay Boyle has exemplified that quality she values most in other artists--the bold articulation of a passionately held belief. An American expatriate in Europe from 1923-1941, Boyle was part of that pioneering group of modernists forging the 'revolution of the word.'

"This collaboration - posthumous in McAlmon's case - has proved amazingly successful. It gives us pictures of two lives - and many surrounding lives - from different angles, as if they had been taken with a stereoscopic camera. Thereby it gives us an impression of depth and substantiality that have been lacking in other memoirs of Paris in the 1920's." - Malcolm Cowley, New York Times Book Review
There was no more exhilarating decade in the history of modern letters than the twenties in Paris. They were all there: Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Alice B. Toklas... and with them were Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle.

Kay Boyle's deeply moving new novel (her first since The Seagull on the Step) is set in a small Hessian town during the American military occupation of Germany. Its characters confront one another across the chasm of national differences between the conquered and the conquerors. Chiefly they are the American Military Commander of the Post, his sensitive wife, their college freshman daughter, and two Americans who seek her love, one a civilian, the other an army officer, all seen through the eyes of a young German newspaperman. Kay Boyle has employed all of her unique, well-known artistry and human warmth in telling the story of what ensues when antipathy, love, and social tension begin to interact. The result is a novel of palpable distinction