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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
A Fiction
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My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein
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Narrado por:
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Kristin Atherton
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De:
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Deborah Levy
In contemporary Paris, a narrator and two companions explore the life and work of Gertrude Stein: a subversive imagining of a truly subversive female artist.
This program is read by Audie Award–winning narrator Kristin Atherton.
"[Narrator Kristin] Atherton's delivery of [author Deborah] Levy's curious turns of phrase and characteristic repetition are served well by the audio format, their quirky charm intact and their unpredictability all the more delightful." —Kirkus
Our narrator has a lot going on. Her friend Eva’s cat is missing—also, she wonders, where is Eva’s husband. Their other friend Fanny is barely around, and not because of her job in finance; she is tangled up with no less than three lovers. And Gertrude Stein is ruining the narrator’s life.
She is trying to write an essay about Stein but it seems impossible. She knows too much and nothing at all about the leading avant-garde thinker of the early twentieth century. There are the facts: Gertrude Stein studied psychology at Harvard and medicine at Johns Hopkins, then quit; curated modern art in her rented apartment that would shake the world; wrote novels, plays, poetry, and libretti that are incoherent and brilliant; felt love at first sight for her daring wife, the subject of The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas.
But so much is out of reach. How do we put ourselves together? What do we lose to become modern? What do we find beyond the limits of language? Only a book like this, only a book by Deborah Levy, “an indelible writer [and] elliptical genius” (Dwight Garner, The New York Times Book Review), could attempt such an investigation. It crashes through genre to form something distinctively, utterly new—an imaginative, entertaining, and scholarly manifestation befitting the genius at its center. This is My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein.
A Macmillan Audio production from Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Cover art © 2026 Estate of Leonora Carrington / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
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Advance Praise
“Levy is one of few writers who find fresh ways to astonish with each project. . . [My Year in Paris] promises more of that Levy wizardry: bold structural swings and a freewheeling spirit.”
—Lit Hub (Most Anticipated)
“An inventive meld of biography and novel . . . What emerges is a persuasive portrait of Stein—unfettered by corsets, curiously magnetic to men despite her queerness, a self-proclaimed genius who wanted to ‘excavate the future’ . . . [A] short, witty, intriguing work. A beguiling genre-splicer, strewn with questions and some answers.”
—Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“The novel comes alive in the narrator’s riveting efforts to grapple with Stein’s idiosyncratic life and work. There’s much to admire.”
—Publishers Weekly
Praise for Deborah Levy
“[Levy’s] writing is . . . dreamy but diamond-sharp, prismatic, droll . . . Each sentence precisely pins down a feeling . . . Her words are lit from within.”
—Grace Linden, Los Angeles Review of Books
“Levy writes in delicate, evocative strokes . . . You may very well discover something about yourself as you journey through [her] evocative pages.”
—Tope Folarin, Vulture
“Levy’s novels have an undeniable—and undeniably winning—eccentricity . . . They are alive with this relentless spirit of questing . . . We should call her what she is: one of the most lively, most gratifying novelists of ideas at work today.”
—Franklin Foer, The Atlantic
