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Biography. "A gripping book...Like Tosca, Charles Henri Ford has lived for art and for love. In his scintillating diary, Ford presents his extended visits to war-torn France and Italy and his friendships with Cocteau, Balanchine, Dali, Paul Bowles, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Ned Rarem, Jean Genet, Truman Capote, Tennessee Williams and many other luminaries" - Edmund White."When he began publishing in 1929, Ford was unique: ...In his...magazines, Blues and View, he introduced and encouraged surrealism while it passed into the spirit of hundreds of American writers. In his own work he creates the wonder, the wit, and the erotic beauty that have made surrealism the most significant of all modern influences upon poetry" - Edward B. Germain.
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"Like Tosca, Charles Henri Ford has lived for art and love...a masterpiece"---Edmund White
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"Like Tosca, Charles Henri Ford has lived for art and love . . . a masterpiece."―Edmund White
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Introduction by Lynne Tillman
- "Like Tosca, Charles Henri Ford has lived for art and for love. In this scintillating diary, Ford presents his extended visits to war-torn France and Italy and his friendships with Cocteau, Paul Bowles, Gertrude Stein, Jean Genet, Truman Capote, and Tennessee Williams... "These pages show a golden moment before art surrendered to commerce, before gay life became brainless and ghettoized and before America turned its back on Europe. No wonder Ford considers Water from a Bucket his masterpiece." -Edmund White
- "A wonderful piece of writing. This provoking, pleasurable, unexpected book is a true labour of love." -Neil Bartlett, Gay Times (London)