Women of the Left Bank

<p>Now available in a durable paperback edition Shari Benstock's critically acclaimed best-selling <i>Women of the Left Bank</i> is a fascinating exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American English and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the century's early years.</p> <p>This ambitious historical biographical and critical study has taken its place among the foremost works of literary criticism. Maurice Beebe calls it a distinguished contribution to modern literary history. Jane Marcus hails it as the first serious literary history of the period and its women writers making along the way no small contribution to our understanding of the relationships between women artists and their male counterparts from Henry James to Hemingway Joyce Picasso and Pound.</p>