A Hasty Bunch: Short Stories (Lost American Fiction)

viii, 299 pp. New afterword by Kay Boyle. Robert McAlmon was a leading figure in the Paris expatriate literary scene in the 1920s. He was the publisher of the influential avant-garde Contact Editions, and had a reputation of being perhaps the most significant of the young American short-story writers of the time. His life typifies what has been described as "the lost generation".