Paul LaFarge lives in San Francisco. This is his first novel. Stephen Alcorn studied printmaking in Italy and illustrated the Modern Library series. He is the 1998 recipient of the Carter G. Woodson Book Award.
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LaFarge’s stunning novel of love, betrayal, and exploitation is based on themes involving the life of the great city planner Georges-Eugène Haussmann. Baron Georges-Eugène Haussmann was the architect of modern Paris. In two decades,... SEE MORE