{"product_id":"9780241457801","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein","description":"Author: Levy, Deborah\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780241457801\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Penguin UK\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 21 Apr 2026\u003cbr\u003ePages: 240\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Hardback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'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' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho was Gertrude Stein?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAvant-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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd why does she matter?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis 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":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46886537003166,"sku":"UBD-9780241457801","price":42.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780241457801.jpg?v=1779947973","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780241457801","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}