Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 (47 page)

About the Author

FRANCINE PROSE
is the author of twenty works of fiction. Her novel
A Changed Man
won the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, and
Blue Angel
was a finalist for the National Book Award. Her most recent works of nonfiction include the highly acclaimed
Anne Frank: The Book, the Life, the Afterlife
, and the
New York Times
bestseller
Reading Like a Writer
. The recipient of numerous grants and honors, including a Guggenheim and a Fulbright, a Director's Fellow at the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library, Prose is a former president of PEN American Center, and a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in New York City.

 

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Credits

Cover design by Robin Bilardello

Cover photograph © Radoslaw

Copyright

This is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogues are products of the author's imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.

 

LOVERS AT THE CHAMELEON CLUB, PARIS
1932. Copyright © 2014 by Francine Prose. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

 

FIRST EDITION

 

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Prose, Francine

  Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 : a novel / Francine Prose.

       pages cm

  Summary: "A richly imagined and stunningly inventive story of love, art, and betrayal in Paris of the 20's, 30's, and 40's"— Provided by publisher.

  1. Paris (France)—Social life and customs—20th century—Fiction. 2. World War, 1939–1945—France—Paris—Fiction. I. Title.

  PS3566.R68L68 2014

  813'.54—dc23

2013048443

ISBN: 978-0-06-171378-1

EPUB Edition APRIL 2014 ISBN 9780062199133

 

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