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Natalie and Romaine: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
Diana Souhami
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Description for Natalie and Romaine: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
Paperback. The lives and loves of two of the last century's most dazzling and wild women. Num Pages: 240 pages, Illustrations, ports. (some col.). BIC Classification: AGB; BGF; BGL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 134 x 18. Weight in Grams: 213.
Natalie Barney,'the wild girl of Cincinnati', and Romaine Brooks were both rich, American and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915 and their tempestuous affair lasted more than fifty years. By the end of their lives together, Natalie and Romaine had entertained, slept with, fallen in love with, tutored or tortured a range of figures including Gertrude Stein, Colette, Edith Sitwell, Gabriele d'Annunzio and the ballerina Ida Rubinstein. But among this tumult there was an enduring and loving relationship that supported a liberating spirit of culture, style and candour. In this vivid double biography, Souhami writes with complexity and ... Read more
Natalie Barney,'the wild girl of Cincinnati', and Romaine Brooks were both rich, American and grandly lesbian. They met in Paris in 1915 and their tempestuous affair lasted more than fifty years. By the end of their lives together, Natalie and Romaine had entertained, slept with, fallen in love with, tutored or tortured a range of figures including Gertrude Stein, Colette, Edith Sitwell, Gabriele d'Annunzio and the ballerina Ida Rubinstein. But among this tumult there was an enduring and loving relationship that supported a liberating spirit of culture, style and candour. In this vivid double biography, Souhami writes with complexity and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Quercus Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780878829
SKU
V9781780878829
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Ref
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About Diana Souhami
Diana Souhami is the author of Selkirk's Island (winner of the Whitbread Biography award), Coconut Chaos, The Trials of Radclyffe Hall (shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize for Biography and winner of the US Lambda Literary Award), the bestselling Mrs Keppel and Her Daughter (also winner of the Lambda Literary Award and a New York Times 'Notable Book of ... Read more
Reviews for Natalie and Romaine: The Lives and Loves of Natalie Barney and Romaine Brooks
'A wonderful evocation of an era and of a relationship frightening in both its intensity and its bleakness' Guardian.
Guardian
'Pages are crammed with descriptions of exotic characters, their extravagances and eccentricities, the lilies, the pearls, the velvet-lined rooms...' Selina Hastings, Sunday Telegraph.
Sunday Telegraph
'Souhami is an exceptionally witty and original biographer' Sunday Times.
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Guardian
'Pages are crammed with descriptions of exotic characters, their extravagances and eccentricities, the lilies, the pearls, the velvet-lined rooms...' Selina Hastings, Sunday Telegraph.
Sunday Telegraph
'Souhami is an exceptionally witty and original biographer' Sunday Times.
... Read more