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The heart is a burial ground, Tamara Colchester

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The heart is a burial ground

Tamara Colchester

Paris's Left Bank, late 1920s: a whirlwind of wealth, creativity, sensuality and vice. Harry and Caresse Crosby - literature's most scandalous couple - have placed themselves at its centre, mixing with the celebrated artists and writers of the day and founding the Black Sun Press. He is an American heir, poet and publisher who epitomizes the Ì Lost Generation'; she, a charismatic personality who transforms herself from Mary Peabody, dutiful Bostonian wife and mother, into Caresse, willing concubine and artistic patron. But their love story conceals a darker narrative, one that will reverberate through the subsequent decades and generations - Caresse's mercurial daughter Diana, her beautiful granddaughter Elena, and Elena's young children