By Cécile

Fiction & Literature, LGBT, Lesbian, Historical, Literary
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Author: Tereska Torres ISBN: 9781558618060
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY Publication: October 16, 2012
Imprint: The Feminist Press at CUNY Language: English
Author: Tereska Torres
ISBN: 9781558618060
Publisher: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Publication: October 16, 2012
Imprint: The Feminist Press at CUNY
Language: English

A coming of age novel set in post-war France by an author who ”launched the modern genre of the lesbian paperback” (Susan Stryker, author of Queer Pulp).
 
When eighteen-year-old Cecile is orphaned at the end of World War II, the curious and adventurous Catholic student finds refuge in Paris, and with an older man. A former member of the Resistance with Cecile’s parents, Maurice is handsome, a thrilling cultured patron of the arts, and a mentor eager to introduce the budding young author to his intimate circle of friends—Cocteau, Sartre, and Eartha Kitt! As liberating an influence as he is, Maurice also encourages Cecile to shed her inhibitions he sees as bourgeois. Possessing a sensual and passionate temperament, Cecile is eager to begin exploring—by sharing Maurice’s mistress, and writing of every life-changing and delightfully scandalous new experience.
 
Credited with penning the first, candidly lesbian novel—Women’s Barracks, in 1950—Tereska Torrès “scandalized mid-century America” (The New York Times). In By Cecile, written in 1963, “Madame Torres has re-imagined a youthful Colette (here called Cecile) in the infinitely seductive post-World War II period in Paris, where she moves like a sleeping princess through the perverse fairy tales of man-made cafe society. [It’s] a sharply perceptive novel” (Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith).

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A coming of age novel set in post-war France by an author who ”launched the modern genre of the lesbian paperback” (Susan Stryker, author of Queer Pulp).
 
When eighteen-year-old Cecile is orphaned at the end of World War II, the curious and adventurous Catholic student finds refuge in Paris, and with an older man. A former member of the Resistance with Cecile’s parents, Maurice is handsome, a thrilling cultured patron of the arts, and a mentor eager to introduce the budding young author to his intimate circle of friends—Cocteau, Sartre, and Eartha Kitt! As liberating an influence as he is, Maurice also encourages Cecile to shed her inhibitions he sees as bourgeois. Possessing a sensual and passionate temperament, Cecile is eager to begin exploring—by sharing Maurice’s mistress, and writing of every life-changing and delightfully scandalous new experience.
 
Credited with penning the first, candidly lesbian novel—Women’s Barracks, in 1950—Tereska Torrès “scandalized mid-century America” (The New York Times). In By Cecile, written in 1963, “Madame Torres has re-imagined a youthful Colette (here called Cecile) in the infinitely seductive post-World War II period in Paris, where she moves like a sleeping princess through the perverse fairy tales of man-made cafe society. [It’s] a sharply perceptive novel” (Joan Schenkar, author of The Talented Miss Highsmith).

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