{"product_id":"my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-deborah-levy","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein (Deborah Levy)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho was Gertrude Stein?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd why does she matter?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY IN PARIS BOOK AWARD 2026\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDeborah Levy is the author of several novels including \u003ci\u003eAugust Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eHot Milk \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home, \u003c\/i\u003ealongside a formally innovative, critically acclaimed 'living autobiography' trilogy: \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Real Estate. \u003c\/i\u003eShe has been shortlisted twice each for the Goldsmiths Prize and Booker Prize and won the Prix Femina Etranger. She has also written for The Royal Shakespeare Company and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Hardcover), Englisch, 240 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65920188875101,"sku":"K010046280","price":19.6,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/1004628000001A.jpg?v=1789400399","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-deborah-levy","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}