{"product_id":"9780241457801-retail-my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-a-fiction","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction","description":"'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' Atlantic\n\nWho was Gertrude Stein?\n\nAvant-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.\n\nAnd why does she matter?\n\nThe 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nThis 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.","brand":"Book Grocer","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48755510280411,"sku":"9780241457801-RETAIL","price":36.54,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/5585d39b-6d4d-4baa-87d8-04744c1dd31c.jpg?v=1778221387","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780241457801-retail-my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-a-fiction","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}