Paris Was Yesterday
1925-1939
$24.84
- Paperback
320 pages
- Release Date
3 March 2004
Summary
In 1925, Janet Flanner began writing a fortnightly ‘Letter from Paris’ for The New Yorker. Her brief was to tell New Yorkers, under her pen name of ‘Genet’, what the French thought was going on in France, not what she thought.
Paris Was Yesterday is a collection of those letters written in the ‘20s and ‘30s, surely 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 abou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781844080267 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1844080269 |
| Author: | Janet Flanner |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Virago Press Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 3 March 2004 |
| Weight: | 226g |
| Dimensions: | 132mm x 113mm x 20mm |
| Series: | Virago Modern Classics |
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Lively and witty…fascinating escapist entertainment
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
Lively and witty…fascinating escapist entertainment - Leeds GuideIf 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.comLively and witty…fascinating escapist entertainment - Leeds GuideAbout The Author
Janet Flanner
Janet Flanner was born in 1892 in Indianapolis and 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 also received the Legion of Honor.
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