Never Anyone But You - Couverture souple

Thomson, Rupert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1472153499 ISBN 13 : 9781472153494

Editeur : Corsair, 2018

Synopsis

Based on actual events, NEVER ANYONE BUT YOU is the gripping, beautifully written story of a love affair between two revolutionary female artists who challenged the conventions of art and gender during the long twentieth century.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Rupert Thomson is the author of ten highly acclaimed novels, including The Insult, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time, The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by the Australian writer/director, Ana Kokkinos, and Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize. In 2010, he published a memoir, This Party Got to Stop, which won the Writers' Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year. Rupert Thomson has contributed to the Financial Times, the Guardian, the Independent, and Granta. He lives in London.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

'Rupert Thomson reveals in fiction what inevitably remains hidden in nonfiction - lived experience . . . After I finished this acute and tender book, I felt that two fascinating ghosts had become real' Siri Hustvedt

A small city in western France, the early twentieth century. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy 17-year-old with a rare talent for drawing, is entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, the daughter of a Jewish newspaper magnate, and the two young women embark on a clandestine love affair.
Stifled by provincial convention and a society that is overtly patriarchal, they reinvent themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore and move to Paris, where they are swept up in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dalí to Andre Breton. While there, they produce a series of provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today.

As World War Two looms, they leave for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, dreaming up a campaign of propaganda against Hitler's occupying forces that will put their very lives in jeopardy.

From one of our most celebrated writers, Never Anyone but You explores the gripping true story of two extraordinary women who challenged gender boundaries, redefining what it means to be a woman, and ultimately risked their lives in the fight against oppression. Theirs is a story that has been hidden in the margins of history - until now...

'Rupert Thomson is one of the most interesting, adventurous writers working in fiction today' Anne Enright

À propos de la deuxième de couverture

A small city in western France, the early twentieth century. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy 17-year-old with a rare talent for drawing, is entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, the daughter of a Jewish newspaper magnate, and the two young women embark on a clandestine love affair.

Stifled by provincial convention and a society that is overtly patriarchal, they reinvent themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore and move to Paris, where they are swept up in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dali to Andre Breton. While there, they produce a series of provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today.

As World War Two looms, they leave for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, dreaming up a campaign of propaganda against Hitler's occupying forces that will put their very lives in jeopardy.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Corsair
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1472153499
• ISBN 13: 9781472153494
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Corsair Memory, BV.; https://help.corsair.com; ; Wormerweg 8; Almere; Flevoland; Pays-Bas