John Taylor Williams takes readers back to 1910-1960, a time when Provincetown, Wellfleet and Truro were a hotbed of radical thought, avant-garde art and free love. michaelpbrady reviews:
“Yes, the honors pile,” wrote the famed art critic Clement Greenberg to a friend, sounding almost exhausted by his success. “But I want gossip, sexual intrigue, back-biting and hair undoing. I want women, confidences, confessions & broken hearts. Dissipation, indiscretions, glitter, dash, sparkles, sin.”The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960
Williams divides his book into four sections, each named for one of the seasons to convey the scene’s slow, but gradual decline from the verdant spring of the 1910s and ‘20s to the chilly, mid-century winter, by which time the raucous reds of yesteryear had largely been replaced with a tamer crew of intellectuals and establishment types — and just before the founding of the Cape Cod National Seashore in 1961 drove the final nail in the coffin by turning the outer Cape into a tourist destination...
Williams married into this history — his wife’s father, the architect Jack Hall, was deeply ensconced in this scene — and his closeness to the subject matter can be a double-edged sword.
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