Black Venus

James MacManus

earliest edition we have, 2013 Duckworth Publishers, 2014 368 pages

A tale based on the romance between Charles Baudelaire and the Haitian cabaret singer who inspired his most controversial poems is set against the art scene of nineteenth-century Paris and follows their scandalous public trial for obscenity.

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Black Venus edition · 2014 · Duckworth Overlook · 9780715648476
Black Venus edition · 2014 · Duckworth Publishers · 368 pages · 9780715647424
Black Venus edition · 2013 · Thomas Dunne Books · 354 pages · 9781250014238

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