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Magnificent Rebel
Nancy Cunard in Jazz Age Paris
Buch von Anne De Courcy
Sprache: Englisch

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Anne de Courcy, the author of Husband Hunters and Chanel's Riviera, examines the controversial life of legendary beauty, writer and rich girl Nancy Cunard during her thirteen years in Jazz-Age Paris.

Paris in the 1920s was bursting with talent in the worlds of art, design and literature. The city was at the forefront of everything new and exciting; there was no censorship; life and love were there for the taking. At its center was the gorgeous, seductive English socialite Nancy Cunard, scion of the famous shipping line. Her lovers were legion, but this book focuses on five of the most significant and a lifelong friendship.

Her affairs with acclaimed writers Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen and Louis Aragon were passionate and tempestuous, as was her romance with black jazz pianist Henry Crowder. Her friendship with the famous Irish novelist George Moore, her mother's lover and a man falsely rumored to be Nancy's father, was the longest-lasting of her life. Cunard's early years were ones of great wealth but also emotional deprivation. Her mother Lady Cunard, the American heiress Maud Alice Burke (who later changed her name to Emerald) became a reigning London hostess; Nancy, from an early age, was given to promiscuity and heavy drinking and preferred a life in the arts to one in the social sphere into which she had been born. Highly intelligent, a gifted poet and widely read, she founded a small press that published Samuel Beckett among others. A muse to many, she was also a courageous crusader against racism and fascism. She left Paris in 1933, at the end of its most glittering years and remained unafraid to live life on the edge until her death in 1965.

Magnificent Rebel is a nuanced portrait of a complex woman, set against the backdrop of the City of Light during one of its most important and fascinating decades.

Anne de Courcy, the author of Husband Hunters and Chanel's Riviera, examines the controversial life of legendary beauty, writer and rich girl Nancy Cunard during her thirteen years in Jazz-Age Paris.

Paris in the 1920s was bursting with talent in the worlds of art, design and literature. The city was at the forefront of everything new and exciting; there was no censorship; life and love were there for the taking. At its center was the gorgeous, seductive English socialite Nancy Cunard, scion of the famous shipping line. Her lovers were legion, but this book focuses on five of the most significant and a lifelong friendship.

Her affairs with acclaimed writers Ezra Pound, Aldous Huxley, Michael Arlen and Louis Aragon were passionate and tempestuous, as was her romance with black jazz pianist Henry Crowder. Her friendship with the famous Irish novelist George Moore, her mother's lover and a man falsely rumored to be Nancy's father, was the longest-lasting of her life. Cunard's early years were ones of great wealth but also emotional deprivation. Her mother Lady Cunard, the American heiress Maud Alice Burke (who later changed her name to Emerald) became a reigning London hostess; Nancy, from an early age, was given to promiscuity and heavy drinking and preferred a life in the arts to one in the social sphere into which she had been born. Highly intelligent, a gifted poet and widely read, she founded a small press that published Samuel Beckett among others. A muse to many, she was also a courageous crusader against racism and fascism. She left Paris in 1933, at the end of its most glittering years and remained unafraid to live life on the edge until her death in 1965.

Magnificent Rebel is a nuanced portrait of a complex woman, set against the backdrop of the City of Light during one of its most important and fascinating decades.

Über den Autor
Anne de Courcy
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Friendship
2. Grown Up
3. 1919 - A New Era
4. Paris, and Michael Arlen
5. Ezra Pound, 1922
6. Aldous Huxley
7. Le Quartier
8. The Life of the Cafés
9. The Birth of Surrealism
10. Of Writers and Writing
11. Louis Aragon
12. Love and Its Difficulties
13. The Hours Press; Henry Crowder
14. Elsa and the Power of Will
15. Friendships and the Crash
16. Publishing Success and the Beckett Poem
17. The Break with Emerald
18. Black Man, White Ladyship
19. New York
20. Partings

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 336
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781250272560
ISBN-10: 1250272564
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: De Courcy, Anne
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 241 x 163 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Anne De Courcy
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2023
Gewicht: 0,544 kg
preigu-id: 121488694
Über den Autor
Anne de Courcy
Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction

1. The Friendship
2. Grown Up
3. 1919 - A New Era
4. Paris, and Michael Arlen
5. Ezra Pound, 1922
6. Aldous Huxley
7. Le Quartier
8. The Life of the Cafés
9. The Birth of Surrealism
10. Of Writers and Writing
11. Louis Aragon
12. Love and Its Difficulties
13. The Hours Press; Henry Crowder
14. Elsa and the Power of Will
15. Friendships and the Crash
16. Publishing Success and the Beckett Poem
17. The Break with Emerald
18. Black Man, White Ladyship
19. New York
20. Partings

Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Bibliography
Index

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2023
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 336
Inhalt: Gebunden
ISBN-13: 9781250272560
ISBN-10: 1250272564
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: De Courcy, Anne
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 241 x 163 x 34 mm
Von/Mit: Anne De Courcy
Erscheinungsdatum: 11.04.2023
Gewicht: 0,544 kg
preigu-id: 121488694
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