Get By Cecile (Femmes Fatales) PDF

By Tereska Torres

ISBN-10: 1522682856

ISBN-13: 9781522682851

ISBN-10: 1558618058

ISBN-13: 9781558618053

By Cecile depicts post-World struggle II France because it reels from conflict and restoration. In Paris, an orphan lady, Cecile, reveals safe haven with an older guy. He introduces her to nightclubs, intellectuals, artists (Jean Cocteau, Jean-Paul Sartre, and Eartha Kitt!), and non-monogamy. while she falls for his mistress, she starts off to stay a existence she deems worthwhile of writing approximately . . . yet merely lower than the pseudonym of her husband.

Femmes Fatales restores to print the easiest of women’s writing within the vintage pulp genres of the mid-20th century. From secret to hard-boiled noir to taboo lesbian romance, those rediscovered queens of pulp supply subversive views on a turbulent period. benefit from the sequence: Bedelia; Bunny Lake Is Missing; By Cecile; The G-String Murders; The ladies in 3-B; Laura; The guy Who enjoyed His Wife; Mother unearths a Body; Now, Voyager; Return to Lesbos; Skyscraper; Stranger on Lesbos; Stella Dallas; Women's Barracks.

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