{"product_id":"my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-a-fiction-9780374602079","title":"My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOur narrator has a lot going on. Her friend Eva's cat is missing--also, she wonders, where is Eva's husband. Their other friend Fanny is barely around, and not because of her job in finance; she is tangled up with no less than three lovers. And Gertrude Stein is ruining the narrator's life. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShe is trying to write an essay about Stein but it seems impossible. She knows too much and nothing at all about the leading avant-garde thinker of the early twentieth century. There are the facts: Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Harvard and medicine at Johns Hopkins, then quit; curated modern art in her rented apartment that would shake the world; wrote novels, plays, poetry, and libretti that are incoherent and brilliant; felt love at first sight for her daring wife, the subject of \u003ci\u003eThe Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBut so much is out of reach. How do we put ourselves together? What do we lose to become modern? What do we find beyond the limits of language? Only a book like this, only a book by Deborah Levy, \"an indelible writer [and] elliptical genius\" (Dwight Garner, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e), could attempt such an investigation. It crashes through genre to form something distinctively, utterly new--an imaginative, entertaining, and scholarly manifestation befitting the genius at its center. This is \u003ci\u003eMy Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Deborah Levy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/02\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.76lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.49h x 5.73w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374602079\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/06\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Levy\u003c\/b\u003e writes fiction, plays, and poetry. Her work has been staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company, broadcast on the BBC, and translated widely. She is the author of several highly praised novels, including \u003ci\u003eAugust Blue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Man Who Saw Everything \u003c\/i\u003e(long-listed for the Booker Prize), \u003ci\u003eHot Milk\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSwimming Home\u003c\/i\u003e (both Man Booker Prize finalists), \u003ci\u003eThe Unloved\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eBilly and Girl\u003c\/i\u003e; the acclaimed story collection \u003ci\u003eBlack Vodka\u003c\/i\u003e; a three-part autobiography, \u003ci\u003eThings I Don't Want to Know\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Cost of Living\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eReal Estate\u003c\/i\u003e; and, most recently, the collection \u003ci\u003eThe Position of Spoons: And Other Intimacies\u003c\/i\u003e. She lives in London and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Deborah Levy \/ Hardcover \/ English","offer_id":48397166903453,"sku":"9780374602079","price":32.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_dd365631-f888-44ae-bce2-767913bdf9d7.jpg?v=1781074806","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/my-year-in-paris-with-gertrude-stein-a-fiction-9780374602079","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}