Brief Stay with the Living - Rilegato

Darrieussecq, Marie

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ISBN 10: 0571214940 ISBN 13: 9780571214945

Casa editrice: Faber & Faber, 2003

Riassunto

An exploration of loss and guilt, A Brief Stay with the Living is the story of a mother and her three grown-up daughters. Jeanne, the eldest, has moved to Argentina with her husband; Anne lives alone in Paris, but is in the throes of an unhappy affair with a married man; and Nore, the youngest, is in her first year at university but still living at home. Although not close, all four women are drawn together by an incident from their past - a secret that the story only gradually reveals. At once ethereal and incisive, and composed of a series of vivid mental postcards that evoke her themes of absence and disappearance, Darrieussecq's luminous prose involves us in the inner-lives of these characters in a way that is unique in contemporary fiction.

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L'autore

Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her debut novel, Pig Tales (1996), was published in 34 countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. Her second novel, My Phantom Husband (1998), became an immediate bestseller. Her third novel, Breathing Underwater, prompted Francis Gilbert in The Times to declare that 'there are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them'. Her fourth novel, A Brief Stay with the Living, is published in June 2003.

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Book by Darrieussecq Marie

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• Editore: Faber & Faber
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0571214940
• ISBN 13: 9780571214945
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 208