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Thomas Dunne
May 2013
On Sale: May 7, 2013
Featuring: Charles Baudelaire; Jeanne Duval
368 pages
ISBN: 1250014239
EAN: 9781250014238
Kindle: B009LRWJ4S
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Historical
For readers who have been drawn to The Paris Wife,
Black Venus captures the artistic scene in the great
French city decades earlier, when the likes of Dumas
and Balzac argued literature in the cafes of the Left Bank.
Amongst the bohemians the young Charles Baudelaire stood
out—dressed impeccably thanks to an inheritance that was
quickly vanishing. Still at work on the poems which he hoped
would make his name, he spent his nights enjoying the
alcohol, opium, and women who filled the seedy streets of
the city. One woman would catch his eye—a beautiful Haitian cabaret
singer named Jeanne Duval. Their lives would remain
forever intertwined thereafter, and their romance would
inspire his most infamous poems—leading to the banning of
his masterwork Les Fleurs du Mal and a scandalous
public trial for obscenity. James MacManus' Black Venus recreates the classic
Parisian literary world in vivid detail, complete with not
just an affecting portrait of the famous poet but also his
often misunderstood, much-maligned muse. A vivid novel of Charles Baudelaire and his lover
Jeanne Duval, the Haitian cabaret singer who inspired
his most famous and controversial poems, set in
nineteenth-century Paris
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