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Paris Twilight
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Author : Russ Rymer
language : en
Publisher: HMH
Release Date : 2013-07-02
Paris Twilight written by Russ Rymer and has been published by HMH this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-07-02 with Fiction categories.
A novel that “elegantly weaves together many strands—the political, the historical, and the romantic, richly braided with adventure” (Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs). Paris, 1990. While demonstrations against the First Gulf War rage, Matilde Anselm, professor of cardiac anesthesiology, arrives in the City of Light from New York to be part of the surgical team performing a heart transplant—and soon finds herself falling in love with a suave Arab diplomat. Even as her concerns mount over shadowy protocols surrounding the planned transplant, a surprise inheritance—a mysterious apartment and trove of love letters from the Spanish Civil War, bequeathed to her by a stranger—sweeps Matilde through a hidden Paris and into the labyrinth of her own buried past. As the diplomat and the apartment reluctantly reveal their secrets, the tragedies they unearth open a further mystery: the enigma that has haunted Matilde’s life. A dizzying tale of personal transformation, Russ Rymer’s “richly plotted, ardently imagined first novel” is populated by “unforgettable characters [who] grapple with the mystery of what love means, and what it costs” (Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the Book). “Russ Rymer is a virtuoso of mystery and misapprehension. With Paris Twilight, he has created a novel of fine intelligence that richly rewards the reader’s closest attention. An American original.” —Ward Just, author of An Unfinished Season and Exiles in the Garden
Paris Twilight
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Author : Russ Rymer
language : en
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Release Date : 2013
Paris Twilight written by Russ Rymer and has been published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Fiction categories.
A debut thriller of personal transformation: By the time Matilde Anselm, an American physician in Paris to help with a heart transplant, begins to fear she may instead be a party to murder, she's also fallen in love, inherited a mysterious Paris apartment, and discovered she's not who she thought she was.
Twilight Of The Belle Epoque
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Author : Mary McAuliffe
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-03-16
Twilight Of The Belle Epoque written by Mary McAuliffe and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-16 with History categories.
Mary McAuliffe’s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries. Such dramatic breakthroughs were not limited to the arts or sciences, as innovators and entrepreneurs such as Louis Renault, André Citroën, Paul Poiret, François Coty, and so many others—including those magnificent men and women in their flying machines—emphatically demonstrated. But all was not well in this world, remembered in hindsight as a golden age, and wrenching struggles between Church and state as well as between haves and have-nots shadowed these years, underscored by the ever-more-ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great War—a cataclysm that would test the mettle of the City of Light, even as it brutally brought the Belle Epoque to its close. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe brings this remarkable era from 1900 through World War I to vibrant life.
The Twilight Years
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Author : William Wiser
language : en
Publisher: Robson Books Limited
Release Date : 2001
The Twilight Years written by William Wiser and has been published by Robson Books Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with History categories.
Book Review Paris lost none of its magical allure for artists and expatriates in the 1930s. Jazz orchestrated Parisian nights, surrealism flourished, haute couture reinvented itself. James Joyce redefined modern literature with Finnegans Wake and at her cabaret Josephine Baker redefined the derriere. At salons and galleries, palaces and cafes, Henry Miller, Helena Rubinstein, Anais Nin, Coco Chanel, Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, T.S. Eliot, and Katherine Anne Porter joined illustrious exiles of the twenties like Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Pablo Picasso, Janet Flanner, and Man Ray. The Twilight Years tells their story, and the city's. Jauntily narrated and lavishly illustrated with a superb selection of period photographs, it chronicles the decade that continued to foster the brilliant creative revolution of the expatriate era - an era that ended with perhaps the grimmest event in modern French history: the fall of Paris and the Nazi occupation in 1940.
Twilight Visions
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Author : Therese Lichtenstein
language : en
Publisher: University of California Press
Release Date : 2011-07-21
Twilight Visions written by Therese Lichtenstein and has been published by University of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-07-21 with Photography categories.
Through an examination of surrealist photographs, objects, exhibitions, activities, and writings, the essays in Twilight Visions, the beautifully illustrated companion volume to the exhibition of the same name, portray the French capital as a city in the process of metamorphosis-in a kind of twilight state. The Bureau of Surrealist Research, the major Surrealist exhibitions, and the photographs of Paris by Brassai, Andre Kertesz, Ilse Bing, Germaine Krull, and Man Ray, among others, all reflect the tumultuous social and cultural transformations occurring in Paris in the 1920s and 30s. Juxtaposing the strange with the familiar, they seek to break down repressive hierarchies. At the same time, they represent a desire to change the world through experimental activities. Introduced by Therese Lichtenstein, with essays by Therese Lichtenstein, Julia Kelly, Colin Jones, and Whitney Chadwick, this absorbing volume considers the social, aesthetic, and political stances of the Surrealists as they probed hidden aspects of the commonplace and blurred the boundaries between dreams and reality, subjectivity and objectivity. Copub: Frist Center for the Visual Arts
Twilight Years
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Author : William Wiser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Twilight Years written by William Wiser and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with categories.
A social history of the decade that took Paris, its avant-garde artists, and celebrated expatriates to the brink of the WWII. Despite the stock market crash of 1929, Paris lost none of its magical allure for artists and expatriates in the 1930s, with jazz orchestras, surrealism, and haute couture reinventing itself. James Joyce, Josephine Baker, Henry Miller, Anais Nin, Coco Chanel, Helena Rubinstein, Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, T.S. Eliot, Katherine Anne Porter, Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Pablo Picasso, Janet Flanner, and Man Ray all flourished in Paris. This book tells their story, and the city¿s. Chronicles the decade that fostered the brilliant creative revolution of the expatriate era -- but ended with the fall of Paris in 1940. Lavishly illustrated.
The Tender Hour Of Twilight
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Author : Richard Seaver
language : en
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Release Date : 2012-01-03
The Tender Hour Of Twilight written by Richard Seaver and has been published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-03 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
From Beckett to Burroughs, The Story of O to The Autobiography of Malcolm X, an iconic literary troublemaker tells the colorful stories behind the stories Richard Seaver came to Paris in 1950 seeking Hemingway's moveable feast. Paris had become a different city, traumatized by World War II, yet the red wine still flowed, the cafés bustled, and the Parisian women found American men exotic and heroic. There was an Irishman in Paris writing plays and novels unlike anything anyone had ever read—but hardly anyone was reading them. There were others, too, doing equivalently groundbreaking work for equivalently small audiences. So when his friends launched a literary magazine, Merlin, Seaver knew this was his calling: to bring the work of the likes of Samuel Beckett, Eugene Ionesco, and Jean Genet to the world. The Korean War ended all that—the navy had paid for college and it was time to pay them back. After two years at sea, Seaver washed ashore in New York City with a beautiful French wife and a wider sense of the world than his compatriots. The only young literary man with the audacity to match Seaver's own was Barney Rosset of Grove Press. A remarkable partnership was born, one that would demolish U.S. censorship laws with inimitable joie de vivre as Seaver and Rosset introduced American readers to Lady Chatterly's Lover, Henry Miller, Story of O, William Burroughs, The Autobiography of Malcolm X, and more. As publishing hurtles into its uncertain future, The Tender Hour of Twilight is a stirring reminder of the passion, the vitality, and even the glamour of a true life in literature.
Last Twilight In Paris
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Author : Pam Jenoff
language : en
Publisher: Harlequin
Release Date : 2025-02-04
Last Twilight In Paris written by Pam Jenoff and has been published by Harlequin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-04 with Fiction categories.
A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman’s quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this riveting novel of love and survival, from New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff London, 1953. Louise is still adjusting to her postwar role as a housewife when she discovers a necklace in a box at a secondhand shop. The box is marked with the name of a department store in Paris, and she is certain she has seen the necklace before—and that it holds the key to a friend’s mysterious death from when Helaine worked with the Red Cross in Nazi-occupied Europe. Following the trail of clues to Paris, Louise seeks help from her former boss Ian, with whom she shares a romantic history. But nothing is as it seems, and there are forces determined to keep the truth buried forever. Paris, 1943. Helaine and her husband, Gabriel, have just settled into marriage when the Germans invade France. The couple is soon torn apart, and Helaine, a Jew, is sent to the Lévitan—a once-glamorous department store that now serves as a Nazi prison. Here, she must endure the atrocities of war and decide how much she is willing to risk to reunite with her husband once more. Inspired by the true story of the Lévitan, Last Twilight in Paris is both a gripping mystery and an unforgettable story about sacrifice, resistance and the power of love to transcend in even the darkest hours.
Paris At Twilight
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Author : Laurence Snelling
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010-04
Paris At Twilight written by Laurence Snelling and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04 with Fiction categories.
Inthe hot summer months of 1939 as Europe edges ever closer to war, an American writer, Adam Howard, is struggling to survive in Paris as a script doctor -- this time for a French producer whose ambition is to make one last picture before war and, he fears, the Wehrmacht come to France. Adam's life takes a dramatic turn when a Hollywood producer signs him to script Etienne Morel's latest novel. When they meet, Morel asks Adam toreplace a departed fellow American as keeper of the key to a safe-deposit box containing incriminating microfilm of clandestine Soviet activities during the recent civil war in Spain.The microfilm is the only thing preventing Morel from being liquidated by Soviet agents. Adam soon finds himself plunged into a forbidding universe of German spies, Soviet hit-squads and shifting identities. Along the way he meets Sasha Tradescu, a mysterious and alluring Romanian who works at a German-Dutch filmstudio outside Paris, and Morel's even more alluring niece, Luce de Castellane, who eventually shelters him from pursuingSoviet agents-- before events lead to a deadly climax in a rain-swept wood above the Seine.
Twilight In Paris
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Author : Guillaume Alexander
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-07
Twilight In Paris written by Guillaume Alexander and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07 with categories.
By day, Valerie paints and writes poetry in a small town just outside of Paris. At night, she dances and strips at a classy cabaret called Le Théâtre Coquette. Known as the Dragon Princess, this nightclub siren harbors a secret, worth millions.Guy is a real estate developer, who had been dating Gabrielle, the manager of a chocolate shop in Saint-Michel. One evening, Guy encounters Valerie at her club in Pigalle and becomes smitten by her charms. He not only struggles to choose between these two lovers, but also between having a normal life and one of intrigue and adventure.A few months prior to Valerie and Guy's tryst, priceless works of art, including a Rembrandt, were stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. The FBI are baffled as to who might have perpetrated this heist. Coincidentally, Valerie has planned to sell a rare painting to a wealthy Spanish playboy in Monté Carlo, during her and Guy's trip to the French Riviera.Will Guy discover the Dragon Princess' secret before it's too late or will his desire for her drive him to the point of madness and self-destruction? How many people will die, as Valerie and Guy chase their passions, motivated by lust, opulence, and greed?