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Alice Modern

by Michelle Auerbach

Xoxoxpress

Paperback 158 pages English May 31, 2016

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In this graceful, erotically lush novella, a young girl leaves her strict Vienna home to serve as a nanny in the household of modernist poet H.D. and her lover, Winifred Ellerman. Alice leaves a tightly-bound Jewish home for the keen literary lives of "Kat" and "Gryphon" in Vevey, Switzerland. Her sexuality blossoms alongside theirs in a 1930s Europe under existential threat of approaching war and holocaust. This taut, handsome tale brings the gone world so gleamingly to life you could imagine it was all happening just yesterday or earlier today or even tomorrow. Not only does Auerbach write excellent sentences, she deploys them with great care and craft to build a gripping tale of war, love, friendship, and the deep wells of the mind. -- Laird Hunt, author of Neverhome and Kind One
Author:
Michelle Auerbach
Publisher:
Xoxoxpress
Publication Date:
May 31, 2016
Number of pages:
158 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
1880977443
ISBN-13:
9781880977446