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My year in Paris with Gertrude Stein a fiction

Our narrator has a lot going on. Her friend Eva's cat is missing--also, she wonders, where is Eva's husband. Their other friend Fanny is barely around, and not because of her job in finance; she is tangled up with no less than three lovers. And Gertrude Stein is ruining the narrator's life. She is t...

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Main Author: Levy, Deborah (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2026.
Edition:First American edition.
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Stein, Gertrude, > 1874-1946 > Fiction.
Lesbians > Fiction.
Interpersonal relations > Fiction.
Female friendship > Fiction.
Paris (France) > Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Lesbian fiction.
Queer fiction.
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Summary:Our narrator has a lot going on. Her friend Eva's cat is missing--also, she wonders, where is Eva's husband. Their other friend Fanny is barely around, and not because of her job in finance; she is tangled up with no less than three lovers. And Gertrude Stein is ruining the narrator's life. She is trying to write an essay about Stein but it seems impossible. She knows too much and nothing at all about the leading avant-garde thinker of the early twentieth century. There are the facts: Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Harvard and medicine at Johns Hopkins, then quit; curated modern art in her rented apartment that would shake the world; wrote novels, plays, poetry, and libretti that are incoherent and brilliant; felt love at first sight for her daring wife, the subject of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
Physical Description:228 pages ; 22 cm
ISBN:9780374602079
0374602077
Author Notes:Deborah Levy writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and translated widely. She is the author of several highly praised novels, including August Blue , The Man Who Saw Everything (long-listed for the Booker Prize), Hot Milk and Swimming Home (both Man Booker Prize finalists), The Unloved , and Billy and Girl ; the acclaimed story collection Black Vodka ; a three-part autobiography, Things I Don't Want to Know , The Cost of Living , and Real Estate ; and, most recently, the collection The Position of Spoons . She lives in London and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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