{"product_id":"my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein","description":"\u003cp\u003e'In one short and sly book after another, Levy writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWho was Gertrude Stein?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAvant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius - a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd why does she matter?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe narrator of Deborah Levy's latest, dazzling fiction has gone to Paris to find out. There she meets Eva with the blinding gaze, an artist in a long-distance marriage, and Fanny, a sexually adventurous financier; together they cook, walk, read and argue late into the nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAs Paris sweeps her along in its ceaseless flow, she thinks - about what we have to lose to become modern, navigating anxiety, living with uncertainty, angry fathers, making a new life in another country, art and language - how all these things looked to Gertrude Stein in the early days of the twentieth century, and how they look to her and her friends in the early twenty-first.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a book about how we put ourselves together- an exhilarating, witty, cosmopolitan meditation on the pleasures and challenges of friendship, desire and living with other people. But it is also crashes through genre to create an inspired portrait of Stein herself- a writer who experimented fearlessly with a new way of living and who wrestled herself free from the nineteenth century to invent a brand-new way of looking at the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48395652890847,"sku":"9780241457801","price":48.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9780241457801.jpg?v=1769471693","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}