num_pages: 209
description: Beauty will be convulsive....It's 1941. In the chaos of wartime Marseille American engineer - and occult disciple - Jack Parsons stumbles onto a clandestine anti-Nazi group including surrealist theorist Andr Breton. In the strange games of the dissident diplomats exiled revolutionaries and avant-garde artists Parsons finds and channels hope. But what he unwittingly unleashes is the power of dreams and nightmares changing the war and the world forever.It's 1950. A lone surrealist fighter Thibaut walks a new hallucinogenic Paris where Nazis and the Resistance are trapped in unending conflict and the streets are stalked by living images and texts - and by the forces of hell. To escape the city he must join forces with Sam an American photographer intent on recording the ruins and make common cause with a powerful enigmatic figure of chance and rebellion: the exquisite corpse.But Sam is being hunted. And new secrets will emerge that will test all their loyalties - to each other to Paris old and new and to reality itself.
language: English
title: The Last Days of New Paris
publisher: Del Rey