Rat & The Devil: Journal Letters of F. O. Matthiessen and Russell Cheney

They met in 1924 - a middle aged artist and a promising young graduate student. Their loving relationship lasted for twenty years, ended only by one partner's death. The artist was the talented Russell Cheney and the student was F. O. Mattheissen, who would become one of America's foremost literary historians and critics. From over 3.000 of their letters, editor Louis Hyde has selected those which fully reconstruct this fascinating story of two great men in love.