My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Levy, Deborah

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780374602079)

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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Levy, Deborah

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction

$27.00
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Levy, Deborah

My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction

$27.00
Format: Hardcover
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In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.

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.

But so much is out of reach. How do we put ourselves together? What do we lose to become modern? What do we find beyond the limits of language? Only a book like this, only a book by Deborah Levy, "an indelible writer [and] elliptical genius" (Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review), could attempt such an investigation. It crashes through genre to form something distinctively, utterly new--an imaginative, entertaining, and scholarly manifestation befitting the genius at its center. This is My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.

Author: Deborah Levy
ISBN-10: 0374602077
ISBN-13: 9780374602079
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language: English
Published: 06/02/2026
Pages: 240
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d
By Deborah Levy
By Deborah Levy
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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: And Other Intimacies. She lives in London and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

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