Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago. / Cowie, Douglas.
United Kingdom : Myriad Editions, 2016. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago. / Cowie, Douglas.
United Kingdom : Myriad Editions, 2016. 320 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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AU - Cowie, Douglas
PY - 2016/5/26
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N2 - Chicago, 1947: on a freezing February night, France’s feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up radical resident novelist Nelson Algren, asking him to show her around. After a whirlwind tour of dive bars, cabarets and the police lockup, the pair return to his apartment on Wabansia Avenue. Here, a passion is sparked that will last for the next two decades.Their relationship intensifies during intoxicating months spent together in Paris and Chicago. But in between are long, anguished periods apart filled with competing desires – lovers old and new, writing, politics, gambling – which ultimately expose the fragility of their unconventional ‘marriage’ and put their devotion to the test.
AB - Chicago, 1947: on a freezing February night, France’s feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up radical resident novelist Nelson Algren, asking him to show her around. After a whirlwind tour of dive bars, cabarets and the police lockup, the pair return to his apartment on Wabansia Avenue. Here, a passion is sparked that will last for the next two decades.Their relationship intensifies during intoxicating months spent together in Paris and Chicago. But in between are long, anguished periods apart filled with competing desires – lovers old and new, writing, politics, gambling – which ultimately expose the fragility of their unconventional ‘marriage’ and put their devotion to the test.
KW - nelson algren
KW - simone de beauvoir
KW - fiction
KW - chicago
KW - Paris
M3 - Book
SN - 9780956559975
BT - Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
PB - Myriad Editions
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