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A 21-year-old American heiress loosed on Paris with pink-dyed hair and an evening dress before breakfast blunders through affairs, parties, and a budding self-knowledge.
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Giovanni's Room
An American in 1950s Paris confronts his homosexuality through a love affair with an Italian man, and the novel's claustrophobic intensity mirrors the impossibility of the closet.
Foreign Affairs
Two American academics on leave in London, Vinnie Miner, a fifty-something expert on children's rhymes, and her young colleague Fred Turner, fall into unlikely love affairs.
The Rum Diary
In 1958, Paul Kemp, a young freelance journalist, takes a job at a failing English-language newspaper in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and drinks, brawls and drifts towards trouble, in Thompson's early autobiographical novel.
The Sun Also Rises
American expatriates drink, fight, and fall apart in 1920s Paris and Pamplona, trying to find meaning after the war took it all away.
A Moveable Feast
Hemingway's memories of 1920s Paris, cold rooms, Gertrude Stein's salon and his friendship with Scott Fitzgerald, written forty years later and published after his death.
Aya of Yop City
Young women navigate love, ambition, and family in 1970s Abidjan.
The Reivers
An eleven-year-old Mississippi boy and two friends steal his grandfather's car and drive it to a Memphis brothel.
Good Material
Andy, a stand-up comedian in London on the edge of forty, is dumped by Jen, the love of his life, and sets out to work out what went wrong.
High Fidelity
When his girlfriend Laura leaves him, Rob Fleming, a thirty-five-year-old who runs a failing record shop in north London, ranks his all-time top five breakups and goes back to find out what went wrong with each one.
Sentimental Education
A young man in Paris during the 1848 revolution pursues love, ambition, and political ideals, and watches all three dissolve into mediocrity and regret.
Hopscotch
An Argentine intellectual drifts through bohemian 1950s Paris with his lover La Maga and then returns to Buenos Aires, in a novel that can be read straight through or by hopping among its chapters.
The Paris Wife
Hadley Richardson, a shy twenty-eight-year-old from St. Louis, marries the young Ernest Hemingway after a whirlwind courtship and sails with him to Paris, where among the expatriate writers of the 1920s their marriage comes under strain.