Diana Souhami: No Modernism Without Lesbians

UK 2021, 456 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Head of Zeus
This is the story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place - Paris, between the wars - fostered the birth of the Modernist movement. Sylvia Beach, Bryher, Natalie Barney, and Gertrude Stein - a trailblazing publisher, a patron of artists, a society hostess, and a groundbreaking writer - they were all women who loved ... Weiterlesen

Rupert Thomson: Never Anyone But You

UK 2019, 278 pp., brochure, € 14.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Corsair
When Suzanne, a shy 17-year-old, meets the brilliant but troubled Lucie in rural Provence, the two young women embark on a clandestine love affair. The lovers move to Paris where they recreate themselves entirely, as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore. Before long, they are mixing in the most glamorous social circles and producing art of great power and strangeness. But ... Weiterlesen

Rebecca Makkai: The Great Believers

USA 2020, 422 pp., pb., € 17.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Fleet
In 1985, Yale Tishman, the development director for an art gallery in Chicago, is about to pull off an amazing coup, bringing in an extraordinary collection of 1920s paintings as a gift to the gallery. Yet as his career begins to flourish, the carnage of the AIDS epidemic grows around him. One by one, his friends are dying and after ... Weiterlesen

Joe Okonkwo: Jazz Moon

USA 2017, 351 pp., brochure, € 16.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Kensington
On a sweltering summer night in 1925, beauties in beaded dresses mingle with hepcats in dapper suits on the streets of Harlem. The air is thick with reefer smoke, and jazz pours out of speakeasy doorways. Ben Charles is among the locals crammed into a basement club to hear jazz and drink bootleg liquor. For aspiring poet Ben, the swirling, ... Weiterlesen

Edmund White: The Flaneur

UK 2008, 214 pp., brochure, € 15.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
White, who lived in Paris for 16 years, wanders through the avenues and along the quays, into parts of the city virtually unknown to visitors and indeed to many locals, luring the reader into the fascinating and seductive backstreets of his personal Paris. The organizing principle is the combined force of White's perception, imagination, frame of reference and voice. He ... Weiterlesen

Monique Truong: The Book of Salt

USA 2003, 262 pp., brochure, € 19.95
Kostenloser Versand ab 25 Euro Bestellwert.
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Binh, a young gay Vietnamese cook, flees Saigon in 1929, disgracing his family to serve as galley hand at sea. The taunts of his now-deceased father ringing in his ears, Binh answers an ad for a live-in cook at a Parisian household, and soon finds himself employed by lesbian couple Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas. Toklas and Stein hold ... Weiterlesen