Five Love Affairs and a Friendship Audiobook Libro.fm

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Racily enjoyable Daily Telegraph
De Courcy brilliantly recreates the heady spirit of Cunards Paris You feel she really might have been there Laura Freeman The Times

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 Londons Soho and Mayfair and then in the glamorous cafes of 1920s Paris

This is the remarkable story of Nancys Paris life filled with art sex and alcohol She became a muse to Wyndham Lewis Constantin Brncusi 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 mothers 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