Post-adolescence

These stories portray characters and settings ranging from children in the Midwest to artists and writers in Greenwich Villiage to flappers and prostitutes in Paris. All these people and places come out of the life of Robert McAlmon, the expatriate American author and publisher whose writings are finding an audience only now, some fifty years after his death. Post-Adolescence, the short novel that leads off the collection, will be of special interest to aficionados of the glory days of American bohemianism for its portraits of William Carlos Williams and his wife, Florence, Mardsen Hartley,…