{"product_id":"no-modernism-without-lesbians-9781786694867","title":"No Modernism Without Lesbians","description":"\u003cp\u003eA Sunday Times Book of the Year Winner of the Polari Prize A book about love  identity  acceptance and the freedom to write  paint  compose and wear corduroy breeches with gaiters. To swear  kiss  publish and be damned. It is vastly entertaining and often moving... There isnt a page without an entertaining vignette The Times.  The extraordinary story of how a singular group of women in a pivotal time and place  Paris  Between the Wars  fostered the birth of the Modernist movement.  Sylvia Beach  Bryher  Natalie Barney  and Gertrude Stein. A trailblazing publisher; a patron of artists; a society hostess; a groundbreaking writer.  They were all women who loved women. They rejected the patriarchy and made lives of their own  forming a community around them in Paris.  Each of these four central women interacted with a myriad of others  some of the most influential  most entertaining  most shocking and most brilliant figures of the age. Diana Souhami weaves their stories into those of the four central women to create a vivid moving tapestry of life among the Modernists in pre-War Paris.  One of the best books Ive read this year. James Bridle\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45274291077173,"sku":"ByrdShop_1786694867","price":238.9,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781786694867.jpg?v=1780494830","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/no-modernism-without-lesbians-9781786694867","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}