It’s rich in places but never over-the-top. In Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicago, author Douglas Cowie has captured this kind of love perfectly. It was basically the ideal kind of love affair to base a novel on, the kind of love that readers find fascinating, compelling, romantic even occasionally gross in that way love sometimes is. It was a kind of head-over-heels love unstable in its fury but unbreakable in its strength. Algren ends up taking Simone on an impulsive and seedy tour of the city, to dive bars and cabaret shows, and eventually back to his (romantically grotty) apartment where they begin an on-off affair that lasts for the next two decades.įans of de Beauvoir or Algren will likely know their relationship was stormy, passionate, and unconventional it has been documented by de Beauvoir and Algren themselves, both in their novels and in letters written between them, later published. That’s how they met a mutual friend set them up when de Beauvoir was visiting Chicago in 1947. Algren is alone, eating stew and listening to records, deciding where to get drunk that night, when he receives a muddled call from a woman with an interesting accent. More specifically, it’s a re-imagining of the intense, chaotic and ultimately doomed love affair between writers Simone de Beauvoir and Nelson Algren. It’s a novel about novelists it’s a love story about a love story. But in between are long, anguished periods apart filled with competing desires - lovers old and new, writing, politics, gambling - which ultimately expose the fragility of their unconventional 'marriage' and put their devotion to the test.Noon in Paris, Eight in Chicagois a work of fiction about real-life happenings. Their relationship intensifies during intoxicating months spent together in Paris and Chicago. Here, a passion is sparked that will last for the next two decades. After a whirlwind tour of dive bars, cabarets and the police lockup, the pair return to his apartment on Wabansia Avenue.
Chicago, 1947: on a freezing February night, France's feminist icon Simone de Beauvoir calls up radical resident novelist Nelson Algren, asking him to show her around. But in between are long, anguished periods apart filled with competing desires - lovers old and new, writing, politics, gambling - which ultimately expose the fragility of their unconventional 'marriage' and put their devotion to the test.
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