Table of Contents
Introduction xi
Prologue: You're Proud, You'll Suffer 1
1 Forebears 5
2 The Bad One 11
3 The Lost Years 15
4 Things That I Should Be and Which I Am Not 24
5 A Rich Man's Game 40
6 Captive Mistress 54
7 Arthur Capel 64
8 Refashioning Paris 74
9 The Rite of Spring 85
10 The End of an Epoque 96
11 Master of Her Art 105
12 The War Bans the Bizarre 116
13 Remember That You're a Woman 123
14 Alone 135
15 Beginning Again 148
16 The Strangest and Most Brilliant Years 159
17 Dmitri Pavlovich 168
18 The Lucky N° 5 181
19 Entirely in White and Covered in Pearls 194
20 Reverdy 212
21 At the Center 223
22 Bend'Or 239
23 The Crash 257
24 Schiap Had Lots of It but It Was Bad 274
25 War 286
26 Survival 297
27 Von Dincklage 315
28 Exile 335
29 Return: 1954 349
30 I Prefer Disaster to Nothingness 361
31 I Only Hear My Heart on the Stairs 379
Afterword: Those on Whom Legends Are Built Are Their Legends 393
Acknowledgments 400
Notes 405
Select Bibliography 424
Illustration Credits 430
Index 433
