The recipient of numerous literary prizes, including the National Book Award, the Kafka Award, and the Pushcart Prize, Ursula K. Le Guin is renowned for her spare, elegant prose, rich characterization, and diverse worlds. "April in Paris" is a short story originally published in the collection The W
April In Paris, 1921
β Scribed by Tessa Lunney
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 170 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 1460709896
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β¦ Synopsis
Meet the glamorous Kiki Button: socialite, private detective and spy. We all have secrets - it's just that Kiki has more than most ... for fans of Phryne Fisher and Julian Fellowes It's 1921, and after two years at home in Australia, Katherine Button has had enough. Her rich parents have ordered her to get married, but after serving as a nurse during the horrors of the Great War, she has vowed never to take orders again. She flees her parents and the prison of their expectations for the place of friendship and freedom: Europe. Paris in 1921 is the city of freedom, where Katherine can remake herself as Kiki Button, gossip columnist extraordinaire, partying with the rich and famous, the bohemian, the bold and strange, using every moment to create a new woman from the ashes of her war-worn self. But on the modelling dais, Picasso gives her a job: to find his wife's portrait, which has gone mysteriously missing. That same night, her old spymaster from the war contacts her - she has to...
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