{"product_id":"9781543910001","title":"Mademoiselle Alice: A Novel","description":"Winner of the Literary TItan Book Award gold medal. A deeply evocative story inspired by real events: the love affair between two  unforgettable people—Gustave Eiffel, the builder of the Eiffel Tower, and Alice  Guy Blaché, a pioneer in the art of cinema. Mademoiselle Alice steps out of the  shadows into the reader’s mind as an endlessly intriguing and entirely relatable  young woman.  Told through Alice’s eyes, we get to know her, her family, and Monsieur Eiffel.  Eiffel is not looking to fall in love—he is a widower who has everything—wit, wealth, fame, and brilliance. He was a friend of Alice’s father who died when she was  seventeen, and the story she tells of falling in love with him is funny and  emotionally intimate.  Alice and Eiffel forge an enduring romantic and intellectual bond. But while she  wants to marry him, he refuses because he is so much older than she is. Out of her desire to have a family, she marries a handsome Englishman and travels to the  United States, where she works with D. W. Griffith and then opens her own film  studio. Some of her emotional experiences find expression in the scenarios she  writes for film. Her relationship with Monsieur Eiffel continues on in her mind and  leads to some surprising developments.  Mademoiselle Alice tells us much about women’s lives during the silent film era in  France and the United States. Combining a biographer’s knowledge of her subject  with the novelist’s gift for narrative, Janelle Dietrick has crafted a novel that will  capture the interest of every reader.","brand":"BookBaby","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47128250482928,"sku":"9781543910001","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781543910001_p0.jpg?v=1763753712","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781543910001","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}