Uncertain Feast, The.
Solano, Solita. The Uncertain Feast. New York: Jacobsen Publishing Company, Inc., 1930.
8vo.; green cloth; extremities gently bumped; dust-jacket; extremities chipped.
From the publisher’s Popular Reprint Novels series. Solano’s place among the female American expatriate community in Paris and again in the repatriation to New York is most often defined in relief: In a late letter to the Library of Congress, she described herself as “Genêt’s friend, amateur secretary, and guardian of the thesaurus: birth to retirement” (July 20, 1966). Certainly, much of the standard literature on the period casts her in the shadow of Janet Flanner, one of her closest friends from the early twenties who would go on to become the more prominent of the two. When they met in 1921 in New York, where Solano was a journalist and publicist, they decided to travel to Europe and settled in Paris, where they lived together at first on the small income Flanner’s father left her. By the early thirties Flanner had begun her Paris column (as “Genêt”) for The New Yorker, while Solano had published her first three novels. Though Flanner achieved substantially more attention for her journalism than did Solano for her fiction, the two lived as lovers for nearly twenty years.
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