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St Martins Pr (1984), Edition: 1st, Hardcover, 215 pages
Description
The story of Sir Arthur Lyly, the last and most notorious protege of Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas.
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LibraryThing member lilithcat
I find Samuel Steward endlessly fascinating. He was a professor of English at Northwestern University, a friend of Gertrude & Alice, a tattoo artist and a pornographer. Parisian Lives is a novel loosely based on people Steward knew in France in the late '30's, including a character, Johnny
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McAndrews, who in this and other of his works is a stand-in for Steward. The plot revolves around Sir Arthur Lyly, another protégé of Gertrude & Alice, a rising painter with a taste for rough trade. But this is really just a frame on which to hang the story of bohemian life in France in the run-up to the Second World War. Show Less
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215 p.; 8.4 inches
ISBN
0312596669 / 9780312596668
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OCLC = 12
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