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Author:

Thomson, Rupert, author.

Title:

Never anyone but you / Rupert Thomson.

Publisher:

Other Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Subject:

Malherbe, Suzanne,--1892-1972--Fiction.
Cahun, Claude,--1894-1954--Fiction.
Women artists--Fiction.
Lesbians--Fiction.
Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As "sisters" they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail. Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dalí to André Breton, and produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism and threat of fascism, they leave Paris for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler's occupying forces that will put their lives in jeopardy.

ISBN:

1590519140
9781590519141
1590519132
9781590519134

OCLC:

(OCoLC)992989746

LCCN:

2017030118

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