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From a award-winning author of Shirtless in Iceland, Jagged Blind Hop Zozzle is a beautiful, resounding twenties story about a adore triangle that ends in Tragedy. In a summer of 1928, Amherst Professor Cuthbert Westbrook-Madison takes a sabbatical in sequence to live with his Parisian Aunt in Paris and write a novel. Once in Paris he finds, by his Aunt Minerva's connections, everybody ... from F. Scott Fitzgerald, to King Vidor, to James and Nora Joyce ... including dual elegant French twins, large Theophile and poetic Irene. Alfred is preoccupied by Paris, as good as by Theophile, Irene, their mom Eugenie, and her partner Nicolae, an bootleg newcomer from Romania. He pitches ideas for his novel to F. Scott Fitzgerald, learns a art of Parisian celebration bavardage, and finds himself experiencing bomb earthy and romantic passion for a initial time in his life. The novel culminates in a tragedy in a park of Rambouillet Palace, a central summer home of a French President ... and Cuthbert leaves Paris, a male but a novel or love, and earnings to a life he had hoped to leave behind. Rich with Simpson's clarity of place and ability to constraint a shade of characters, vivid sensuality, surpassing wit and a beauty of summer Paris, Jagged Blind Hop Zozzle is a debate de force: a glorious novel about a essence outstanding energy of passion, and how a heart is, indeed, "a waste hunter."
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #653956 in Books
- Published on: 2012-02-24
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 322 pages
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Clarion raves, " Simpson's character will interest to readers, his characters review to Brideshead Revisited. Theconclusion is brilliantly conceived. The novel opens during a tallness of a Jazz Age. As Josephine Baker says, "I do love a night out in Paris. Snappy and witty ... and that angled blind bound zozzle from time to time."
"In a world of passionate freedoms and governmental vagaries, Cuthbert discovers a costs; in a final days of his summer abroad, an unsolved murder leads him to think betrayals from his friends. The book is enthralled in 1920s Paris; characters, such as Josephine Baker and Hollywood author King Vidor, even pronounce in slang." Kirkus Review
About a Author
M. S. Simpson has been called "
Le seul écrivain
américain
qui comprend
Paris (the usually American author who understands Paris)."
Author of a novels Shirtless in Iceland (winner of a Pinnacle Book Award for Achievement, 2011) and Kabuki in a G-String, his work has been concurred in France, where he lives, as "deeply judicious into a subleties of French culture."
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By Austin
I'm going by a reading binge during a moment, and we bought this novel given we suspicion it would be light and airy, a discerning small read. Don't ask me now given we suspicion that, given this novel is profoundly deep, sensitive, wakeful of life's secrets, and a book we lingered over for days. we suspicion Cuthbert was indeed a pleasing innocent, yet we was enraptured by Nicolae/Nicolas a Romanian immigrant, who reminds me of a impression in Apartment Zero: dignified and depraved during a same time, large and kind, hard-edged and cruel. He feel within him a fury during a diagnosis life has dealt him, a rich doctor's son from Bucharest driven into outcast by amicable disturbance and reduced to being a waiter and prostitute; he's a change to Josephine Baker, who comes opposite as beautifully sensitive and nonetheless seeting with annoy during a approach she's been treated by white society. In one examination with Theophile, when she speaks of death, we got goosebumps: ""Oh, sweetie, it ain't genocide on a other side, we meant it isn't genocide ... genocide is here on this side, I've died during slightest 10 times over here on this side, each time we went to a colored watchful room we died, each time we offering adult my giveaway will to any aged white lady who suspicion she was improved than me given her titties were white and pink, we died ..." Simpson is that singular arrange of writer, who understands each one of his characters as good as a subsequent one, French, American, white, black. This novel will reason we spellbound, and M. S. Simpson is a many intelligent author given E. M. Forster, we mount by that.
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By Ruche
Never has a novel so wholly intent my imagination and heart. we didn't consider it would. we occur to like a period, and we adore Josephine Baker. we approaching a good-ish read. Forget about that. This is a sock we in a essence book. M.S. Simpson can write like, good I'm during mislaid to find a suitable comparison. He has a singular voice, a special approach of capturing things with visible directness. His discourse is always on target. Thematically, this book binds together like a dream novel. You know where you're going and once we get there (though we determine with a examination we examination that called a conclusion, "Brilliantly conceived) you're still repelled and upset. we won't contend we cry, yet we mourned. Truly, when we finished we simply sat there and hold it in my hands staring during it. Read this book, either we caring during all about a Jazz Age or Paris, given it is a book about love, profanation and a surpassing inequities in society. Simpson, we adore you, immature man.
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By Pechorin
I only finished my examination duplicate of this book, and we couldn't put it down until a final (sad) word. The finale of this novel has to be one of a best I've ever read, adult there with a greats of literature. Beyond that, we felt so connected to Cuthbert. He embodied a summary of a novel, even in his flashback memory to his summer vanquish on a child who worked in his New York building. Lovely. Honestly, we can't contend adequate about this book, it's that good. The characters are so vivid, so strongly drawn, and a account is (to me) a sign of Aldous Huxley. There are echos of Point Counterpoint here, given Simpson clearly done an try to have his account constraint a indeterminate beauty and cocktail of jazz. My favorite stage (without spoiling a plot), that astonishing strut outward in a summer air, that is echoed by Minnie's memory of carrying waltzed in a sleet with an artist. My, oh my. This is what we call a NOVEL !!
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