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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship - The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age (Paperback)
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Five Love Affairs and a Friendship - The Paris Life of Nancy Cunard, Icon of the Jazz Age (Paperback)
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Discovery Miles 4 660
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Dazzlingly beautiful, highly intelligent and an extraordinary force
of energy, Nancy Cunard was an icon of the Jazz Age, said to have
inspired half the poets and novelists of the twenties. Born into a
life of wealth and privilege, yet one in which she barely saw her
parents, Nancy rebelled against expectations and pursued a life in
the arts. She sought the constant company of artists, writers,
poets and painters, first in London's Soho and Mayfair, and then in
the glamorous cafes of 1920s Paris. This is the remarkable story of
Nancy's Paris life, filled with art, sex and alcohol. She became a
muse to Wyndham Lewis, Constantin Brancusi sculpted her, Man Ray
photographed her and she played tennis with Ernest Hemingway. She
had many love affairs, the most significant of which are included
in this book: the American poet Ezra Pound, the novelists Aldous
Huxley and Michael Arlen, the French poet Louis Aragon and finally
and controversially the black American pianist Henry Crowder, with
whom she ran her printing press in Paris. She was also shaped by
her lifelong friendship with George Moore, her mother's lover. This
tempestuous tale of passion and intrigue is as much a portrait of
twenties Paris as it is the story of an extraordinary woman who
defined her age.
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