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Genêt - by Brenda Wineapple (Paperback)

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  • The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover.
  • About the Author: Brenda Wineapple, an English professor at Union College, Schenectady, New York, goes beyond the mast of Genêt to reveal Flanner--no less vivid and complex than Stein, the Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, and other American expatriates who crossed her path.
  • 369 Pages
  • Biography & Autobiography, Literary Figures

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Originally published: New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1989.



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The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few years before she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Genêt. For half a century she described life on the Continent with matchless elegance.



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The daughter of an Indianapolis mortician, Janet Flanner really began to live at the age of thirty, when she fled to Paris with her female lover. That was in 1921, a few years before she signed on as Paris correspondent for the New Yorker, taking the pseudonym Genet.



About the Author



Brenda Wineapple, an English professor at Union College, Schenectady, New York, goes beyond the mast of Genêt to reveal Flanner--no less vivid and complex than Stein, the Fitzgeralds, Hemingway, and other American expatriates who crossed her path.
Dimensions (Overall): 8.94 Inches (H) x 5.91 Inches (W) x .85 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.17 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 369
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
Sub-Genre: Literary Figures
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Format: Paperback
Author: Brenda Wineapple
Language: English
Street Date: December 1, 1992
TCIN: 1005678312
UPC: 9780803297401
Item Number (DPCI): 247-05-8417
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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