Paris Twilight

Author : Russ Rymer
Publisher : HMH
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780544003071

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Paris Twilight by Russ Rymer Pdf

A novel that “elegantly weaves together many strands—the political, the historical, and the romantic, richly braided with adventure” (Claire Messud, author of The Woman Upstairs). Paris, 1990. While demonstrations against the First Gulf War rage, Matilde Anselm, professor of cardiac anesthesiology, arrives in the City of Light from New York to be part of the surgical team performing a heart transplant—and soon finds herself falling in love with a suave Arab diplomat. Even as her concerns mount over shadowy protocols surrounding the planned transplant, a surprise inheritance—a mysterious apartment and trove of love letters from the Spanish Civil War, bequeathed to her by a stranger—sweeps Matilde through a hidden Paris and into the labyrinth of her own buried past. As the diplomat and the apartment reluctantly reveal their secrets, the tragedies they unearth open a further mystery: the enigma that has haunted Matilde’s life. A dizzying tale of personal transformation, Russ Rymer’s “richly plotted, ardently imagined first novel” is populated by “unforgettable characters [who] grapple with the mystery of what love means, and what it costs” (Geraldine Brooks, author of People of the Book). “Russ Rymer is a virtuoso of mystery and misapprehension. With Paris Twilight, he has created a novel of fine intelligence that richly rewards the reader’s closest attention. An American original.” —Ward Just, author of An Unfinished Season and Exiles in the Garden

Author : Russ Rymer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780618113736

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Paris Twilight by Russ Rymer Pdf

Arriving in 1990 Paris to join a surgery team to help with a heart transplant, cardiac anesthesiologist Matilde Anselm falls in love with an Arab diplomat and inherits a mysterious Paris apartment before discovering a shocking truth about her identity. By the author of the National Book Critics Circle Award finalist, Genie: A Scientific Tragedy. 25,000 first printing.

Author : Mary McAuliffe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442221642

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Twilight of the Belle Epoque by Mary McAuliffe Pdf

Mary McAuliffe’s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries. Such dramatic breakthroughs were not limited to the arts or sciences, as innovators and entrepreneurs such as Louis Renault, André Citroën, Paul Poiret, François Coty, and so many others—including those magnificent men and women in their flying machines—emphatically demonstrated. But all was not well in this world, remembered in hindsight as a golden age, and wrenching struggles between Church and state as well as between haves and have-nots shadowed these years, underscored by the ever-more-ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great War—a cataclysm that would test the mettle of the City of Light, even as it brutally brought the Belle Epoque to its close. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe brings this remarkable era from 1900 through World War I to vibrant life.

Author : William Wiser
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0786707860

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The Twilight Years by William Wiser Pdf

A fascinating social history of Paris in the 1930s introduces readers to the international, cosmopolitan city that attracted thousands of expatriates from all over the world, including Henry Miller, Katherine Anne Porter, Man Ray, and Picasso, to name a few.

Author : Richard Seaver
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780374273781

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The Tender Hour of Twilight by Richard Seaver Pdf

A personal account by the late founder of Arcade Publishing documents his experiences in the literary world of the mid-20th century, describing his efforts to overcome U.S. censorship laws and introduce readers to important written works.

Author : Adam Gopnik
Publisher : Random House
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2001-12-18
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781588361387

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Paris to the Moon by Adam Gopnik Pdf

Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful. It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank café--a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive. So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, Gopnik walked the paths of the Tuileries, enjoyed philosophical discussions at his local bistro, wrote as violet twilight fell on the arrondissements. Of course, as readers of Gopnik's beloved and award-winning "Paris Journals" in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with day-to-day, not-so-fabled life. Evenings with French intellectuals preceded middle-of-the-night baby feedings; afternoons were filled with trips to the Musée d'Orsay and pinball games; weekday leftovers were eaten while three-star chefs debated a "culinary crisis." As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys--both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. "We went to Paris for a sentimental reeducation-I did anyway-even though the sentiments we were instructed in were not the ones we were expecting to learn, which I believe is why they call it an education."

Author : Christophe Guilluy
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300233766

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Twilight of the Elites by Christophe Guilluy Pdf

A passionate account of how the gulf between France’s metropolitan elites and its working classes are tearing the country apart Christophe Guilluy, a French geographer, makes the case that France has become an “American society”—one that is both increasingly multicultural and increasingly unequal. The divide between the global economy’s winners and losers in today’s France has replaced the old left‑right split, leaving many on “the periphery.” As Guilluy shows, there is no unified French economy, and those cut off from the country’s new economic citadels suffer disproportionately on both economic and social fronts. In Guilluy’s analysis, the lip service paid to the idea of an “open society” in France is a smoke screen meant to hide the emergence of a closed society, walled off for the benefit of the upper classes. The ruling classes in France are reaching a dangerous stage, he argues; without the stability of a growing economy, the hope for those excluded from growth is extinguished, undermining the legitimacy of a multicultural nation.

Author : Therese Lichtenstein
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015084111775

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Twilight Visions by Therese Lichtenstein Pdf

In their works, photographers such as Jacques-André Boiffard, Brassaï, Ilse Bing, André Kertész, Germaine Krull, Dora Maar, and Man Ray used fragmentation, montage, unusual viewpoints, and various technical manipulations to expose the disjunctive and uncanny aspects of modern urban life.

Author : Sarah Sundin
Publisher : Revell
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493434152

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Until Leaves Fall in Paris by Sarah Sundin Pdf

Winner of the 2022 Christy Award for Historical Romance "With meticulous historical research and an eye for both mystery and romance, Sundin rises to the top of World War II fiction in this latest novel."--Library Journal starred review *** As the Nazis march toward Paris in 1940, American ballerina Lucie Girard buys her favorite English-language bookstore to allow the Jewish owners to escape. Lucie struggles to run Green Leaf Books due to oppressive German laws and harsh conditions, but she finds a way to aid the resistance by passing secret messages between the pages of her books. Widower Paul Aubrey wants nothing more than to return to the States with his little girl, but the US Army convinces him to keep his factory running and obtain military information from his German customers. As the war rages on, Paul offers his own resistance by sabotaging his product and hiding British airmen in his factory. After they meet in the bookstore, Paul and Lucie are drawn to each other, but she rejects him when she discovers he sells to the Germans. And for Paul to win her trust would mean betraying his mission. Master of WWII-era fiction Sarah Sundin invites you onto the streets of occupied Paris to discover whether love or duty will prevail. *** "This potent synthesis of history, love, and faith will delight romance readers."--Publishers Weekly "A compelling exploration of the seemingly simple good things that end up requiring great sacrifice and having far-reaching impacts."--Booklist starred review

Author : World's Columbian Exposition Dept. of Fine Arts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Art
ISBN : HARVARD:32044108421975

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Revised Catalogue, Department of Fine Arts, with Index of Exhibitors ... Department of Publicity and Promotion ... by World's Columbian Exposition Dept. of Fine Arts Pdf

Author : William Wiser
Publisher : Robson Books Limited
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Arts
ISBN : 1861054203

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The Twilight Years by William Wiser Pdf

Book Review Paris lost none of its magical allure for artists and expatriates in the 1930s. Jazz orchestrated Parisian nights, surrealism flourished, haute couture reinvented itself. James Joyce redefined modern literature with Finnegans Wake and at her cabaret Josephine Baker redefined the derriere. At salons and galleries, palaces and cafes, Henry Miller, Helena Rubinstein, Anais Nin, Coco Chanel, Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, T.S. Eliot, and Katherine Anne Porter joined illustrious exiles of the twenties like Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Pablo Picasso, Janet Flanner, and Man Ray. The Twilight Years tells their story, and the city's. Jauntily narrated and lavishly illustrated with a superb selection of period photographs, it chronicles the decade that continued to foster the brilliant creative revolution of the expatriate era - an era that ended with perhaps the grimmest event in modern French history: the fall of Paris and the Nazi occupation in 1940.

Author : Moses Purnell Handy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : PRNC:32101077985214

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Official Catalogue ... by Moses Purnell Handy Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 726 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1893
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015020142306

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World's Columbian Exposition, 1893 by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mary McAuliffe
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781442209299

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Dawn of the Belle Epoque by Mary McAuliffe Pdf

A humiliating military defeat by Bismarck's Germany, a brutal siege, and a bloody uprising—Paris in 1871 was a shambles, and the question loomed, "Could this extraordinary city even survive?" With the addition of an evocative new preface, Mary McAuliffe takes the reader back to these perilous years following the abrupt collapse of the Second Empire and France's uncertain venture into the Third Republic. By 1900, Paris had recovered and the Belle Epoque was in full flower, but the decades between were difficult, marked by struggles between republicans and monarchists, the Republic and the Church, and an ongoing economic malaise, darkened by a rising tide of virulent anti-Semitism. Yet these same years also witnessed an extraordinary blossoming in art, literature, poetry, and music, with the Parisian cultural scene dramatically upended by revolutionaries such as Monet, Zola, Rodin, and Debussy, even while Gustave Eiffel was challenging architectural tradition with his iconic tower. Through the eyes of these pioneers and others, including Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Clemenceau, Marie Curie, and César Ritz, we witness their struggles with the forces of tradition during the final years of a century hurtling towards its close. Through rich illustrations and vivid narrative, McAuliffe brings this vibrant and seminal era to life.

Author : Sarah Sundin
Publisher : Revell
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-02
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781493428649

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When Twilight Breaks by Sarah Sundin Pdf

Munich, 1938. Evelyn Brand is an American foreign correspondent as determined to prove her worth in a male-dominated profession as she is to expose the growing tyranny in Nazi Germany. To do so, she must walk a thin line. If she offends the government, she could be expelled from the country--or worse. If she fails to truthfully report on major stories, she'll never be able to give a voice to the oppressed--and wake up the folks back home. In another part of the city, American graduate student Peter Lang is working on his PhD in German. Disillusioned with the chaos in the world due to the Great Depression, he is impressed with the prosperity and order of German society. But when the brutality of the regime hits close, he discovers a far better way to use his contacts within the Nazi party--to feed information to the shrewd reporter he can't get off his mind. This electric standalone novel from fan-favorite Sarah Sundin puts you right at the intersection of pulse-pounding suspense and heart-stopping romance.