9781635420012-1635420016-Never Anyone But You: A Novel

Never Anyone But You: A Novel

ISBN-13: 9781635420012
ISBN-10: 1635420016
Edition: Reprint
Author: Rupert Thomson
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Other Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781635420012
ISBN-10: 1635420016
Edition: Reprint
Author: Rupert Thomson
Publication date: 2020
Publisher: Other Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages

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Never Anyone But You: A Novel (ISBN-13: 9781635420012 and ISBN-10: 1635420016), written by authors Rupert Thomson, was published by Other Press in 2020. With an overall rating of 4.4 stars, it's a notable title among other Jewish (Literature & Fiction) books. You can easily purchase or rent Never Anyone But You: A Novel (Paperback, Used) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Jewish books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.48.

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Named a Best Book of the Year by The Guardian, The Observer, and Sydney Morning Herald.

A literary tour de force that traces the real-life love affair of two extraordinary women, recreating the surrealist movement in Paris and the horrors of the world wars with a singular incandescence and intimacy.


In the years preceding World War I, two young women meet, by chance, in a provincial town in France. Suzanne Malherbe, a shy seventeen-year-old with a talent for drawing, is completely entranced by the brilliant but troubled Lucie Schwob, who comes from a family of wealthy Jewish intellectuals. They embark on a clandestine love affair, terrified they will be discovered, but then, in an astonishing twist of fate, the mother of one marries the father of the other. As “sisters” they are finally free of suspicion, and, hungry for a more stimulating milieu, they move to Paris at a moment when art, literature, and politics blend in an explosive cocktail.

Having reinvented themselves as Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, they move in the most glamorous social circles—meeting everyone from Hemingway to Dalí—and produce provocative photographs that still seem avant-garde today. In the 1930s, with the rise of anti-Semitism and fascism, they leave Paris for Jersey, and it is on this idyllic island that they confront their destiny, creating a campaign of propaganda against Hitler's occupying forces that will put their lives in jeopardy.

Brilliantly imagined, profoundly thought-provoking, and ultimately heartbreaking, Never Anyone But You infuses life into a forgotten history as only great literature can.
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