Vamps of '29
By Alice Jurow
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In the darker corners of the City of Light, three fashionable young women revel in the glamor of late-1920s Paris nightlife. They model cutting-edge styles at a couture house on the rue Cambon. And, they are vampires. “Vamps of '29” follows their piquant and picaresque adventures as they seek to define for themselves what it means to be a modern vamp. Jazz-mad and fashion-obsessed, this debut novel is period fiction with a touch of urban fantasy.
While immortal charm keeps the vamps perennially youthful, redhaired Natalie is the oldest of the three. A former Mariinsky ballerina, she is moody and volatile, with a fatal penchant for intense Slavic idealists. The youngest is Lucienne, an emigree from Indochine, whose cool exterior conceals depths of mysterious knowledge and a complicated past which comes back to haunt her, when her powerful Uncle Yu re-enters her life. And then there's Sally. An Enlightenment-born native Parisienne, she's eager to embrace all things twentieth-century: bobbed hair, hot jazz, the English language and a series of mortal friends and lovers, including a New Orleans jazz pianist, a British pilot, Oscar Wilde's niece and an actress named Louise. When a lavish trip to Venice with a couple of American socialites turns dangerous, Sally goes undercover by cross-dressing her way to Berlin. The three vampire friends re-unite in Paris to model in one last astonishing fashion show and bring the 1920s to a close.
Alice Jurow has a long involvement with the Art Deco Society of California; she often writes and lectures on the fashion, architecture and art of the 1920s-'30s. This is her first novel.
Alice Jurow
Alice Jurow has written and lectured on Art Deco architecture, art and fashion. This is her first published novel. She lives in Berkeley, California, with her human and feline family.
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