Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932: A Novel Audiobook

Quotes

• “Significant writers are rare, by definition. A writer like Francine Prose, who is not only significant but capable of writing brilliantly about pretty much anything—from obsessive love to religious ecstasy to Lovers at the Chameleon Cub, Paris, 1932, about life in Paris in the twenties and beyond—is not only rare. She is, essentially, the Hope Diamond of literature.”

  — Michael Cunningham, New York Times bestselling author

• “This novel is a reading experience like none other I’ve ever had—a shimmering library of possible truths and forking pathways, an anthology of lies and secrets, of self-deceit and self-indictment, complicity and resistance, myriad tales of glorious transgression. I was addicted to this book.”

  — Karen Russell, New York Times bestselling author

• “Francine Prose’s latest, and possibly best, book goes further in destroying the concept of a single truth than Rashomon. It is also an uproarious portrait of Paris from the mid-twenties to the Second World War. Prose has always been adept at slaying sacred cows; in this book, she pretty much machine-guns them.”

  — Gary Shteyngart, New York Times bestselling author

• “Engrossing...The narrative twists and turns, circles back to add depth to previous scenes, at other times casts doubt on the reliability of a narrator, and occasionally calls into question the entire endeavor of historical fiction.”

  — Elle

• “A master of the craft delivers a riveting period piece that probes the origins of evil.”

  — O, The Oprah Magazine

• “Francine Prose exuberantly conjures up the romance of that unstable era…Ms. Prose’s novel is filled with felicitous imagery and sparkling period details.”

  — Wall Street Journal

• “An oasis of ribald humor, sexual transgression, and military intrigue…So dazzlingly does Francine Prose re-create this seamy chapter of mid-century Paris that it’s tempting to think of her as not a novelist but an editor who corralled all these people into a raucous work of history...C’est magnifique!”

  — Washington Post

• “A novel of great reach and power, a portrait of an entire era. Prose…has a miraculous gift for imagining a foggy quay or a smoky cabaret…A a convincing reconstruction of an entire epoch.”

  — New York Times Book Review

• “A dark and glorious tour de force…In an intricately patterned, ever-morphing, lavishly well-informed plot spanning the French countryside and reaching to Berlin, Prose intensifies our depth perception of that time of epic aberration and mesmerizing evil as she portrays complex, besieged individuals struggling to become their true selves.”

  — Booklist (starred review)

• “Brilliant and dazzling…A tour de force of character, point of view, and especially atmosphere.”

  — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)