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Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
Douglas Cowie
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Description for Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
Paperback. Sharp and intimate, Douglas Cowie's reimagining of the turbulent love affair between Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren asks what it means to love and be loved by the right person at the wrong time. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 198 x 24. Weight in Grams: 304.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Myriad Editions
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
303g
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Brighton, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780956559975
SKU
V9780956559975
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About Douglas Cowie
DOUGLAS COWIE is originally from Chicago and has lived in both England and Berlin since 1999. He is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at Royal Holloway, University of London. His first novel, Owen Noone and the Marauder, was published in the UK and the US in 2005. Most recently he has published two linked novellas, Sing for Life: Tin ... Read more
Reviews for Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago
'Cowie has captured the tragic love between Nelson Algren and Simone de Beauvoir with heartfelt innocence... and exposes the tender, vulnerable soul of both with a deep sense of empathy.' Mark Blottner, co-director of Nelson Algren: The End is Nothing, The Road is All,' A classic story brought to life by classic story-telling.' The Skinny, 'Intoxicating... It feels both contemporary ... Read more