title: Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel (P.S. (Paperback))
author:  Francine Prose 
description: &#8220;A reading experience like none other-a shimmering library of possible truths and forking pathways&#8230;Readers of this extraordinary novel become Villars&#8217; co-biographers, piecing through &#8216;official&#8217; and underground accounts as ample (and as unreliable) as the human library of memory. I was addicted to this book.&#8221; (Karen Russell, author of SWAMPLANDIA)<br /><br />&#8220;Prose&#8217;s latest book goes further in destroying the concept of a single truth than &#8216;Rashomon.&#8217; It&#8217;s also an uproarious portrait of Paris from the mid-twenties to the Second World War. Prose has always been adept at slaying sacred cows; in this book, she pretty much machine-guns them.&#8221; (Gary Shteyngart, author of LITTLE FAILURE, A Memoir)<br /><br />&#8220;An engrossing literary mystery&#8230;Refracting the vivid, villainous life of Louisianne Villars through letters, memoirs, and the recreations of a biographer, Prose coaxes into kaleidoscopic view both a tortured human being and bohemian Paris before and during the Nazi occupation&#8230; she cleverly exploits the vain, self-serving nature of memory itself.&#8221; (Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize winning author of A VISIT FROM THE GOON SQUAD)<br /><br />&#8220;A pitch perfect pastiche that interrogates the meaning of art and the limits of loyalty. With a style that is beautiful, strong, modest and absolutely authoritative Prose directs the light of her immense talent on the horrors of fascism and the puzzling, sometimes punishing nature of love. A great novel.&#8221; (Scott Spencer, author of MAN IN THE WOODS and A SHIP MADE OF PAPER)<br /><br />&#8220;Significant writers are rare. A writer like Prose, who is not only significant but capable of writing brilliantly about pretty much anything-from obsessive love to religious ecstasy to life in Paris in the twenties and beyond-is not only rare. She is, essentially, the Hope Diamond of literature.&#8221; (Michael Cunningham)<br /><br />&#8220;Brilliant and wicked and funny and right on-never has Europe been done with such savage precision&#8230;Every bit funny and appalling, at the end especially, of course. There&#8217;s not a French affectation, hypocrisy or depravity left untouched. I love it!&#8221; (Diane Johnson, author of LE MARIAGE and L'AFFAIRE)<br /><br />&#8220;Prose is the real chameleon here, blending effortlessly into half a dozen disparate voices&#8230;The result is a perfect stunner, the novel-as-a Picasso, or a kaleidoscope-vivid, fractured, and spellbinding&#8230;Prose is one of our sharpest critics and our most daring novelists, and this is her best book.&#8221; (Joshua Ferris, author of AND THEN WE CAME TO THE END)<br /><br />&#8220;The breadth, nerve and intricacy of Francine Prose&#8217;s big new novel should surprise even her most regular readers. A bona fide page turner&#8230;&#8221; (The New York Times)<br /><br />&#8220;A novel of great reach and power, a portrait of an entire era.&#8221; (The New York Times Book Review)<br /><br />&#8220;So dazzlingly does Francine Prose re-create this seamy chapter of mid-century Paris that it&#8217;s tempting to think of her as not a novelist but an editor who corralled all these people into a raucous work of history...C&#8217;est magnifique!&#8221; (The Washington Post)
zlib_text: > WHORE
  
  > CHAUVINIST STORIES #3
  
  > ELISE FABER
  
  > WHORE
  
  BY ELISE FABER
  
  This is a work of fiction. Names, places, characters, and events are
  fictitious in every regard. Any similarities to actual events and persons,
  living or dead, are purely coincidental. Any trademarks, service marks,
  product names, or named features are assumed to be the property of their
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  WHORE
  
  Copyright © 2020 Elise Faber
  
  Print ISBN-13: 978-1-946140-58-6
  
  Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-946140-57-9
  
  Cover Art by Jena Brignola
  
  > > CHAUVINIST STORIES
  
  [ _Bitch_](http://www.books2read.com/Bitch)
  
  [ _Cougar_](http://www.books2read.com/Cougar)
  
  [ _Whore_](http://www.books2read.com/Whore)
  
  [ _End Scene_](http://www.books2read.com/EndScene)
  
  > CONTENTS
  
  >  _Chauvinist Stor