Secrets of the Flesh

Secrets of the Flesh

by Judith Thurman

"In 1900, a provincial beauty best known as the child bride of a famous Parisian rake captivated the Belle Epoque by writing a story that invented the modern teenage girl. It was the first in a series of wildly popular but also critically acclaimed novels that, combined with a flamboyant career on the stage, made this former country girl the first authentic superstar of the century."--BOOK JACKET. "But for all her celebrity as one of France's greatest and most notorious novelists and personalit

1999 592 pages Ballantine Books 1 curator

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