Galahad and I Thought of Daisy

From one of the leading literary critics of his generation comes the first of Edmund Wilson''s three novels I thought of Daisy published together with his short story Galahad. Set in Greenwich Village in the 1920s Edmund Wilson’s I Thought of Daisy tells the coming of age story of a young man living a bohemian life in Greenwich Village in the 1920s and of his heartfelt relationship with a chorus girl he meets at a party. Fictional sketches drawn from real-life literary figures are scattered throughout including John Dos Passos and Wilson''s lover Edna St. Vincent Millay.What needs to be [said] is how good if ungainly Daisy is how charmingly and intelligently she tells of the speakeasy days of a Greenwich Village as red and cozy as a valentine of lamplit islands where love and ambition and drunkenness bloomed all at once. The fiction writer in Wilson was real and his displacement is a real loss. - John Updike