By Cecile (Femmes Fatales)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (921 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1558618058 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 240 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-01-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Perceptive and Poetic I picked up this book, excited to get a glimpse into the lesbian pulp scene of the mid-1900s. I expected campy - a lot of campy. But I got something much more thoughtful than I anticipated.From Tereska Torres, considered the first lesbian pulp writer, comes the story of Cécile. Torres sets a stage in the aftermath of WWII. Cécile is, from the begi
Enjoy the series: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The Girls in 3-B; Laura; The Man Who Loved His Wife; Mother Finds a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women's Barracks.. From mystery to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, these rediscovered queens of pulp offer subversive perspectives on a turbulent era. In Paris, an orphan girl, Cecile, finds refuge with an older man. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists (Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. By Cecile depicts post-World War II France as it reels from war and recovery. When she falls for his mistress, she begins to live a life she deems worthy of writing about but only under the pseudonym of her husband.Femmes Fatales restores to print
"Madame Torres has re-imagined a youthful Colette (here called Cecile) in the infinitely seductive post-World War II period in Paris, where she moves like a sleeping princess through the perverse fairy tales of man-made cafe society. By Cecile is a sharply perceptive novel."—Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith