The Best Times An Informal Memoir Author:John Dos Passos A record of his childhood, young adulthood, and twenties, The Best Times is a collage of cherished memories. He reflects on the joys of an itinerant life enriched by new and diverse friendships, customs, cultures, and cuisines. — Luminary personalities and landscapes abound in the 1920s literary world Dos Passos loved. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest... more » Hemingway, E.E. Cummings, Gerald and Sara Murphy, Horsley Gantt?they are his beloved friends. Spain, the French Riviera, Paris, Persia, the Caucasus?they are his beloved footpaths.« less