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Author Thomson, Rupert, author

Title Never anyone but you / Rupert Thomson

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 Bangor Pub. Lib. Display 1st Floor  T3785 .n    DUE 04-16-24  
 Bangor Pub. Lib. Fiction Cellar  T3785 .n c.2  AVAILABLE  
Phys Descr 350 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Summary In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As "sisters" they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail. Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most glamorous social circles, meeting everyone from Hemingway and Dalí to André Breton, and produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism and threat of fascism, they leave Paris for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler's occupying forces that will put their lives in jeopardy
Subject Malherbe, Suzanne, 1892-1972 -- Fiction
Cahun, Claude, 1894-1954 -- Fiction
Women artists -- Fiction
Lesbians -- Fiction
OCLC # 992989746
ISBN # 9781590519134
1590519132