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AdèleMary Flanagan

Adèle

1997245 pages
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Celia Pippet, founder of a feminist magazine, audaciously steals a bizarre artifact of Adele's life from the British Museum. Joined by her friend Martin, a filmmaker, and American academic Tamara Sass, she flees to Bez in the French Pyrenees to escape detection and to pursue the trail of the beguiling Adele. Here they plan to make a documentary on a case of high-class prostitution and an unpunished crime. Sixty years before, Adele had been rescued from Bez by Dr. Jonas Sylvester. He brought her to Paris where her enigmatic beauty soon became legendary. When Sylvester summons his sister…

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3 editions
  • Other · English · 1997
    Adèle
    Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W. · 9780393254143
  • Other · English · 1997
    W.W. Norton · 245 pages · 9780393045475
  • Other · English · 1997
    Bloomsbury · 245 pages · 9780747533320
Brothers and sistersCrimes againstFictionLesbian feminismLesbiansProstitutesWomen scholarsYoung women