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A richly dreamed and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, artwork, and betrayal, discovering the genesis of bad, the unforeseen effects of love, and the best unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s: It is a city of intoxicating ambition, interest, artwork, and discontent, where louche jazz venues like the Chameleon Club draw expats, musicians and artists, libertines, and parvenus looking to indulge their true selves. It is at the Chameleon where the eye-catching Lou Villars, a fantastic athlete and scandalous cross-dressing lesbian, finds refuge among the club's faithful denizens, like the rising shooter Gabor Tsenyi, the socialite and artwork patron Baroness Lily de Rossignol, and the caustic American article writer Lionel Maine. As the years complete, their fortunes - and the planet itself - evolve. Lou falls in love and finds success as a contest car drivers. Gabor builds his reputation with brilliant and imaginative images, including a haunting portrait of Lou and her fan, that may resonate through all their lives. As the exuberant '20s give way to darker times, Lou experiences another metamorphosis that will warp her earnest desire to have love and agreement into something far more sinister: Collaboration with the Nazis. Told in a kaleidoscope of voices, Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 evokes this incandescent city with brio, humor, and intimacy. A brilliant work of fiction and a mesmerizing listen, it is Francine Prose's finest novel yet.
