An American in Paris

"In the States, celibacy had never been my strong suit. In Paris, it was a crime against nature--a mortal sin." With this cheeky response to her new city, Henri Adams--recently released from the tyranny of Prohibition and freshly appointed as an art correspondent for En Vogue magazine--sets out to discover the literary, artistic, and more unmentionable pleasures of Paris during the Roaring Twenties. Welcomed with open arms by Gertrude Stein (and somewhat more soberly by Alice B. Toklas), Henri hobnobs with expatriate luminaries--Natalie Barney, Picasso, Colette, Romaine Brooks, Ernest Hemingway, Djuna Barnes--and unleashes her Yankee curiosity, only to find herself entangled in an avant-garde art theft ring and the shackles of Paris' sapphic underground. Gay Paris more than lives up to its name in this prequel to Vandenburg's most recent novel, Craze, a Jazz Age portrait of queer New York.

Author: Margaret Vandenburg
Publisher: Cleis Press
Published: 02/11/2025
Pages: 223
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.01h x 5.52w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9781573441070
ISBN10: 1573441074
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Historical | General
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Margaret Vandenburg is a novelist, playwright, and essayist whose books include Craze, a Roaring Twenties romp (sequel to An American in Paris); The Home Front, a portrait of a family facing autism; and Weapons of Mass Destruction, an Iraq War requiem. Her plays include Roe v. Wade 2.0, the centerpiece of a theater-based reproductive rights coalition, and Belly of the Beast, a finalist for the Drama League Award for Outstanding Digital Theater. Having completed her Ph.D. in English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, Vandenburg spent her academic career as a Senior Lecturer at Barnard College, specializing in modernism, postmodernism, and gender studies. She lives in the Hudson Valley, a stone's throw from New York City. margaretvandenburg.com