{"product_id":"my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-by-deborah-levy","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein by Deborah Levy","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ca class=\"doPublisherSearch\" href=\"https:\/\/ipage.ingramcontent.com\/ipage\/productdetail?queryString=H4sIAAAAAAAA_x3NsQoCMRAE0F9Zpr5GwWZLOSvR6grhOCSQVYPxErKRI4r_7mr3ZhiYN9SDLy6qdNCUwLU8jbmCsU3pDrO-wOuNIVq5Ow09fltzfzj-ncHjuOpg3ktbUvHnIdQolh-NmrhCYabsSlBaQr3RVYr9eCGtEmbGNH2--apRTYoAAAA\u0026amp;R=88627860\u0026amp;dNo=0#\"\u003eFarrar, Straus and Giroux\u003c\/a\u003e: \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLong-listed for the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAmerican Library in Paris Book Award\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eOur 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBut 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, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e), 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 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eMy Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dotters Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52541475127589,"sku":"9780374602079","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2167\/5269\/files\/ibg.common.titledetail-3_e7a1e418-2fb5-4995-8637-54ff43a36933.gif?v=1781124058","url":"https:\/\/dottersbooks.com\/products\/my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-by-deborah-levy","provider":"Dotters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}