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Janelle Dietrick

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Description:Winner of the Literary TItan Book Award gold medal.A deeply evocative story inspired by real the love affair between twounforgettable people—Gustave Eiffel, the builder of the Eiffel Tower, and AliceGuy Blaché, the first female filmmaker, a silent film pioneer. Mademoiselle Alice steps out of theshadows into the reader's mind as an endlessly intriguing and entirely relatableyoung woman.Told through Alice's eyes, we get to know her, her family, and Monsieur Eiffel.Eiffel is not looking to fall in love—he is a widower who has everything—wit, wealth,fame, and brilliance. He was a friend of Alice's father who died when she wasseventeen, and the story she tells of falling in love with him is funny andemotionally intimate.Alice and Eiffel forge an enduring romantic and intellectual bond. But while shewants to marry him, he refuses because he is so much older than she is. Out of herdesire to have a family, she marries a handsome Englishman and travels to theUnited States, where she works with D. W. Griffith and then opens her own filmstudio. Some of her emotional experiences find expression in the scenarios shewrites for film. Her relationship with Monsieur Eiffel continues on in her mind andleads to some surprising developments.Mademoiselle Alice tells us much about women's lives during the silent film era inFrance and the United States. Combining a biographer's knowledge of her subjectwith the novelist's gift for narrative, Janelle Dietrick has crafted a novel that willcapture the interest of every reader.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mademoiselle Alice: A Novel (The Life and Work of Alice Guy Blaché Book 1). To get started finding Mademoiselle Alice: A Novel (The Life and Work of Alice Guy Blaché Book 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: Winner of the Literary TItan Book Award gold medal.A deeply evocative story inspired by real the love affair between twounforgettable people—Gustave Eiffel, the builder of the Eiffel Tower, and AliceGuy Blaché, the first female filmmaker, a silent film pioneer. Mademoiselle Alice steps out of theshadows into the reader's mind as an endlessly intriguing and entirely relatableyoung woman.Told through Alice's eyes, we get to know her, her family, and Monsieur Eiffel.Eiffel is not looking to fall in love—he is a widower who has everything—wit, wealth,fame, and brilliance. He was a friend of Alice's father who died when she wasseventeen, and the story she tells of falling in love with him is funny andemotionally intimate.Alice and Eiffel forge an enduring romantic and intellectual bond. But while shewants to marry him, he refuses because he is so much older than she is. Out of herdesire to have a family, she marries a handsome Englishman and travels to theUnited States, where she works with D. W. Griffith and then opens her own filmstudio. Some of her emotional experiences find expression in the scenarios shewrites for film. Her relationship with Monsieur Eiffel continues on in her mind andleads to some surprising developments.Mademoiselle Alice tells us much about women's lives during the silent film era inFrance and the United States. Combining a biographer's knowledge of her subjectwith the novelist's gift for narrative, Janelle Dietrick has crafted a novel that willcapture the interest of every reader.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Mademoiselle Alice: A Novel (The Life and Work of Alice Guy Blaché Book 1). To get started finding Mademoiselle Alice: A Novel (The Life and Work of Alice Guy Blaché Book 1), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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