In These Lowly Objects, Cate McGowan has fashioned one of the great fictional characters of our time in Jules Lalande, Dadaist extraordinaire.
From his Dickensian childhood alongside a second cousin (and later, wife), Isobel, McGowan tracks--in rich, rigorous prose--the Zelig-like Lalande\'s wanderings through fin de si cle Paris as he rubs elbows with Degas and C zanne, fights in World War I, lands in New York with Breton, becomes a professi.
In These Lowly Objects, Cate McGowan has fashioned one of the great fictional characters of our time in Jules Lalande, Dadaist extraordinaire