Lovers At The Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 (2013) - Plot & Excerpts
Years earlier, I’d seen her throw a javelin at the Vélodrome d’Hiver. After walking away from a promising athletic career, she resurfaced as a “dancer” at the Chameleon Club. There her duties involved clumping around in a sailor suit and lifting Arlette, her tramp of a girlfriend, in their crude but popular Little Mermaid routine. Later Arlette would become the toast of Nazi-occupied Paris. At the beginning, nothing, or almost nothing, hinted at the fiend that must have been lurking inside Lou. There was that time she punched a referee after a race in Louvain. But I’d missed the confrontation, having been kept in Paris on business with Gabor Tsenyi. Apparently Lou apologized, and the matter was forgotten. Lou was never a normal person. A woman athlete who dressed like a man was in a class by herself. Sometimes she reminded me of a twelve-year-old boy balancing on the razor’s edge between baby fat and manhood, hiding his insecurity beneath a veneer of surly aggression. Anyone could see how unhappy Lou was.
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