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This is a collection of those letters written in the 1920s and 30s, perhaps one of the most fascinating periods in the city's history, and it reads like an arts "Who's Who". Flanner saw it all and knew everyone (or at least all about them), and there are titbits about the likes of James Joyce, Ernest Hemingway, Isadora Duncan, Diaghilev, Gertrude Stein, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald, Picasso and Marlene Dietrich.
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Janet Flanner was born in 1892 in Indianapolis & went to Europe in 1921, where she spent the rest of her life, mainly in Paris. Her Paris Journal 1944-1965 won the National Book Award. A member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters, Flanner alsoreceived the Legion of Honor.
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Lively and witty...fascinating escapist entertainment * Leeds Guide * If you'd like to feel that you are in Les Deux Magots, or Cafe Fleur, listening to Sartre or Cocteau; if you'd like to hear the gossip about the gendarmerie asking Marlene Dietrich to leave Paris because she had the audacity to wear trousers in public or if you'd like to meet James Joyce in The Shakespear & Company Book Store; if you'd like to attend one of Gertrude Stein's intellectual discussions & meet her companion, Alice B. Toklas, then this book is for you * Amazon.com *
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- PublisherVirago
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1844080269
- ISBN 13 9781844080267
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages320
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