{"product_id":"left-bank-art-passion-and-the-rebirth-of-paris-194050-9781627790246","title":"Left Bank: Art  Passion  and the Rebirth of Paris  1940-50","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives  loves  collaborations  and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris  In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying  significant  and ultimately triumphant eras  Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets  writers  painters  and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most celebrated works of the 20th century  from Richard Wrights Native Son  Simone de Beauvoirs The Second Sex  and James Baldwins Giovannis Room to Samuel Becketts Waiting for Godot and Saul Bellows Augie March  along with the origin stories of now legendary movements  from Existentialism to the Theatre of the Absurd  New Journalism  bebop  and French feminism.  We follow Arthur Koestler and Norman Mailer as young men  peek inside Picassos studio  and trail the twists of Camuss Sartres  and Beauvoirs epic love stories. We witness the births and deaths of newspapers and literary journals and peer through keyholes to see the first kisses and last nights of many ill-advised bedfellows. At every turn  Poirier deftly hones in on the most compelling and colorful history  without undermining the crucial significance of the era. She brings to life the flawed  visionary Parisians who fell in love and out of it  who infuriated and inspired one another  all while reconfiguring the worlds political  intellectual  and creative landscapes. With its balance of clear-eyed historical narrative and irresistible anecdotal charm  Left Bank transports readers to a Paris teeming with passion  drama  and life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647219818549,"sku":"ByrdShop_1627790241","price":21.91,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781627790246.jpg?v=1781689927","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/left-bank-art-passion-and-the-rebirth-of-paris-194050-9781627790246","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}