Pull Devil, Pull Baker: Stella Benson and Count Nicolas De Toulouse Lautrec De Savine

Benson, Stella

ISBN 10: 1913861600 / ISBN 13: 9781913861605

Published by Boiler House Pr, 2022

About this Item

378 pages. 7.75x5.00x0.75 inches. In Stock. This item is printed on demand.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pull Devil, Pull Baker: Stella Benson and Count Nicolas De Toulouse Lautrec De Savine
• Publisher: Boiler House Pr
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1913861600
• ISBN 13: 9781913861605
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.39 kilograms

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Synopsis

The oddest book you may ever read, both fantastic autobiography and ground-breaking autofiction

Count Nicolas de Toulouse Lautrec de Savine was a hero in battle and a legendary lover in bed. A daring adventurer and a shameless swindler. A gambler ready to place the riskiest bets and a coward apt to flee his creditors in the middle of the night. Tsar of Bulgaria and a Chicago streetcar conductor. A racist, a chauvinist, and an antisemite. Was he all of these--or none of them? This is the question Stella Benson struggled with as she tried to shape the Count's wild recollections into a coherent story. Which mattered more: the factual truth or the fictional truth? Her answer anticipates today's field of creative nonfiction--while telling a wild, funny, and unique tale.

Literary Nonfiction. Autofiction.

About the Author

Born in Shropshire in 1892, Stella Benson published her first novel, I Pose, at the age of twenty-three. She went on to write six more novels, along with collections of poetry, short stories, and travel essays. Her fiction blends fantasy and cold-eyed realism, satire and tragedy and she remains one of the most original talents of her generation. She lived in America, Hong Kong, and Manchuria and died of pneumonia in Vietnam in 1933.