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Available
Publication
Ticknor & Fields (1989), Edition: First Edition, 361 pages
Description
The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few yearsnbsp;before she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Genêt. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance.
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LibraryThing member EricCostello
A relatively straightforward biography of the long-time writer for the New Yorker, and fixture on the Paris literary scene. The author does not shy away from some of the more unpleasant aspects of Janet Flanner's character; Flanner comes across as someone that was rather manipulative and inconstant
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in her personal life, and subject to maddening habit in her writing that must have made working with her a martyrdom. Still, you get a sense of why Flanner was an intriguing writer, and it goes beyond having a good editor. Might be recommended for those interested in literary history, but not a book of broad appeal. Show Less
LibraryThing member mnicol
An early writing. Well written, well researched - but not about a nice person in any obvious way, without being nasty, without really being interesting. Rather read Gertrude Stein or the Alice Toklas Cookbook. Or that great book about the history of the New Yorker by Brendan Gill. Not a book to
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recommend - or pass on. I was amazed it arrived, ordered by post on a whim, so I had to read it. Show Less
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Original language
English
Physical description
361 p.; 9.4 inches
ISBN
0899194427 / 9780899194424