Left Bank

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"An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives, loves, collaborations, and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris"--Amazon.com.

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Full title :Left Bank / Agnès Poirier.

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Publication Date:2018.

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Publisher(s):Henry Holt and Company
Place of Publication:New York, New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:2018.

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ISBN:9781627790246, 1627790241
oclc:on1230338818
LC Classification:DC752.R52
Dewey Decimal:944/.361

I. War was my master -- The fall -- The choice -- The fight -- The desire -- II. Modern times -- A philosophy of existence -- Lust and emancipation -- A third way -- III. The ambiguities of action -- How not to be a communist? -- Love, style, drugs, and loneliness -- Action and dissidence -- "Paris's gloom is a powerful astringent" -- IV. Sharpening the senses -- "They owned art while we were just full of dollars" -- Stimulating the nerves -- Anger, spite, and failure -- Vindicated -- Farewells and a new dawn.

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