"Parisian Lives" 1984 STEWARD, Samuel M. (SOLD)
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STEWARD, Samuel M.
[215] pp.
St Martin's Press
1984
8 1/2" x 5 7/8"
Fine/ Fine
Steward uses his literary persona - rather than the Phil Sparrow/Phil Andros one - to novelize the life of Sir Arthur Lyly, like Steward, a friend and protegé of Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas.
Recounts the life of Sir Arthur Lyly, protege of Gertrude Stein, who divides his time between his painting and his dangerous, desperate homosexual loves.
Nostalgic yet psychologically acute, 'Parisian Lives' chronicles the strange interconnections between Sir Arthur Lyly's career as a painter and his increasingly dangerous and desperate loves- for a Chicago gangster, a disturbed British sailor, a young Parisian tough, and a Spanish peasant boy.