{"product_id":"9780241457801","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein : A Fiction - Deborah Levy","description":"\u003cp\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' AtlanticWho was Gertrude Stein?Avant-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. And why does she matter?The 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. As 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. This 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Deborah Levy","offers":[{"title":"240 pages \/ 16\/04\/2026 \/ Modern \u0026 contemporary fiction (post c 1945)","offer_id":56965867241847,"sku":"9780241457801","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0682\/9454\/1624\/files\/9780241457801_f817d3e3-a21c-44f1-b995-2f5d4dcc7f7e.jpg?v=1780926274","url":"https:\/\/gulpfictionbooks.com\/products\/9780241457801","provider":"Gulp Fiction","version":"1.0","type":"link"}