{"product_id":"abroad-an-expatriates-diaries-1950-1959-9780923389468","title":"Abroad: An Expatriate's Diaries 1950-1959","description":"\u003cp\u003eLiterary Nonfiction. Memoir. \"Hers is the most authentic voice I've heard from the expat fifties. She brings to life a seminal decade in literary and sexual history, one that she and her fellow expats, coming home, passed on to the next generation of Americans who thought that they had invented the Sexual Revolution. This is an essential book. And a damn good story as well \" Edward Field\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"A well-observed account of the texture of life for those resistant spirits who actively held out against the cultural norms of 1950's America. To read ABROAD is to take a wander down the pleasure path of a sadly bygone era.\" Moe Angelos\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"ABROAD is a beautifully felt and rendered story of a fascinating woman in a fascinating time. Harriet Zwerling's account of her life in Paris in the fifties is entertaining and important. Don't miss this wonderful book.\" Mary Dearborn\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Abroad, and how  We see in this diary a beautiful, brave young woman escape Cold War America's stifling paranoias to conduct her own intimate search for the truth of desire. Bravely, she questions pleasure itself: Where is it most to be found? In encounters with men or with women? What are its costs? How does it challenge emotional, mental, and physical well-being? A reader marvels at the vitality with which Harriet Sohmers Zwerling meets those challenges, the honesty with which she records her experience, and the generosity with which she offers the record to us today.\" Sarah White\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eZwerling, Harriet Sohmers:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Harriet Sohmers Zwerling (born 1928), is an American writer and artist's model. She lived in Paris in the 1950s as part of the bohemian expatriate scene centered around James Baldwin, with whom she shared space in a literary magazine called \u003cem\u003eNew Story\u003c\/em\u003e. She translated a novel by the Marquis de Sade for Maurice Girodias' Olympia Press and worked for the \u003cem\u003eInternational Herald Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e. In 1959 she moved to New York City and was a part of the literary scene there, publishing stories, (one in the anthology \u003cem\u003eThe Bold New Women\u003c\/em\u003e issued by Fawcett), co- editing the \u003cem\u003eProvincetown Review\u003c\/em\u003e and working as an artist's model for some of New York's most important painters. She had lovers of both sexes, including Maria Irene Fornes from 1954 to 1957, and then Susan Sontag until 1958. In 1963, she married merchant sailor and bohemian Louis Zwerling and had a son, the musician Milo Z. She taught school in Greenpoint, Brooklyn for 28 years. In 2003 a collection of her writings, \u003cem\u003eNotes of a Nude Model \u0026amp; Other Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e was published by Spuyten Duyvil. She appears in the documentary \u003cem\u003eStill Doing It\u003c\/em\u003e about the sex lives of older women.","brand":"Spuyten Duyvil","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50553807208722,"sku":"9780923389468","price":13.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_da3e0a87-ee20-4a42-91f7-e518ed504bd2.jpg?v=1731703740","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/abroad-an-expatriates-diaries-1950-1959-9780923389468","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}