Trans Simon Pare (4 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. Map (illustrator). 3rd printing; dj w/unclipped price; owner's name; 392 clean, unmarked pages.

Paperback. Condition: New. Wanting a fresh start, 85-year-old retired boxer Napoleon, along with his grandson Leonard, embarks on a series of hare-brained escapades across his native France, adopting dogs and plotting to kidnap minor celebrities as he confronts the realities of ageing.

Hardcover. Condition: New. In 1929 the young Christopher Isherwood arrives in Berlin, where Marlene Dietrich stalks the stage, while in Paris Picasso paints his young mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter and Jean-Paul Sartre waits anxiously for Simone de Beauvoir in a tearoom. Using letters, diaries and published writing, this book follows the lives and loves of writers and artists through what WH Auden called the 'low, dishonest decade' leading up to the Second World War.

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