Volume 27, Number 21 & 22 · January 22, 1981
Outsider
By Thomas R. Edwards
John Dos Passos: A Twentieth Century Odyssey
by Townsend Ludington
Dutton, 568 pp., $20.00
In the summer of 1968, we learn from Townsend Ludington's diligent new biography, John Dos Passos and his wife visited old friends in Coon Rapids, Iowa, and at Walloon Lake in upper Michigan. During the latter visit the Dos Passoses and their hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rumsey Marvin, 'attended a church service during which a memorial for Ernest Hemingway was read. Quietly but firmly Dos Passos stood up and left the church in a gesture of distaste more severe than anything he had written about Ernest in The Best Times. Ernest's remarks in A Moveable Feast no doubt were still galling.'
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