HadleyH1
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How about a homage to eating in Paris in the year of 1926-27?
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/220473.Between_Meals
Alas, no I have not read it yet either! (So many books, so little time.)
I'm drilling through the John Le Carre autobiography now, and A life of Montaigne is up next.
Still, I'm always sniffing about for an interesting read and I saw this one. Immediately thought of this thread.
Modi and her French girlfriend Jeanne.....who pregnant and all, threw herself out of a building window a day or so after Modi died of tuberculosis...killing herself of course....apparently she couldn't bear to live without him....
he was handsome ... she was in love I assume....oh well....La vie boheme.....
and she was gorgeous too, c'est la vie
Very much in the Romantic style of literature, but unfortunately, this was real life.
He was handsome or, as you say, interesting looking in an of-the-period and a certain-type way (the other end of the Hemingway he-man continuum). She was definitely pretty in her youth, but sadly, truly mentally disturbed in a way that would be diagnosed and treated today.