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“lise bissonnette”

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  • Following the Summer

    by Lise Bissonnette ...
    In the stifling heat of summer in a northern Canadian mining town, Marie, a young teacher, is fascinated by her new friend Corrine, a waitress who is determined to squeeze every drop of experience and sensation from life.As summer ends, Marie marries an immigrant from Eastern Europe. She has chosen Ervant because she senses -- or hopes -- that despair will not defeat him as it has the men who ... Read more

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  • Cruelties

    by Lise Bissonnette ...
    Translated by Sheila Fischman ...
    From the acclaimed author of Following the Summer and Affairs of Art come these stories that convey the betrayal that accompanies every love story, seek to dispel all illusion, and recommend malice as state of grace. In the end vengeance emerges -- hot, velvety, coursing with passion and blood, and, surprisingly, capable of forging the most lasting ties between people. ... Read more

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    Henry Miller's famously banned book is "a matter-of-fact celebration of chucking one's dreary life and following your heart to Paris" (Richard Price).Now hailed as an American classic, Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller's masterpiece, was banned as obscene in this country for twenty-seven years after its first publication in Paris in 1934. Only a historic court ruling that changed American censorship ... Read more

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  • Our Lady of the Flowers

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    Jean Genet's seminal Our Lady Of The Flowers (1943) is generally considered to be his finest fictional work. The first draft was written while Genet was incarcerated in a French prison; when the manuscript was discovered and destroyed by officials, Genet, still a prisoner, immediately set about writing it again. It isn't difficult to understand how and why Genet was able to reproduce the novel ... Read more

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  • Sleepless Nights

    by Elizabeth Hardwick ...
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  • The Necrophiliac

    by Gabrielle Wittkop ...
    Translated by Don Bapst ...
    For more than three decades, Lucien — one of the most notorious characters in the history of the novel — has haunted the imaginations of readers around the world. Remarkably, the astounding protagonist of Gabrielle Wittkop’s lyrical 1972 novella, The Necrophiliac, has never appeared in English until now.This new translation introduces readers to a masterpiece of French literature, striking not ... Read more

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  • The Journals of John Cheever

    by John Cheever ...
    Series series Vintage International
    In these journals, the experiences of one of the most renowned twentieth-century American writers come to life with fascinating, wholly revealing detail. • "A treasure-trove of riches." —The New York Times Book ReviewThe Pulitzer Prize-winning author's journals provide peerless insights into the creation of his novels and stories. But they are equally the record of a complex, often dark, always ... Read more

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  • Paris Vagabond

    by Jean-Paul Clebert ...
    Translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith ...
    An NYRB Classic OriginalJean-Paul Clébert was a boy from a respectable middle-class family who ran away from school, joined the French Resistance, and never looked back. Making his way to Paris at the end of World War II, Clébert took to living on the streets, and in Paris Vagabond, a so-called “aleatory novel” assembled out of sketches he jotted down at the time, he tells what it was like. His ... Read more

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  • Project for a Revolution in New York

    by Alain Robbe-Grillet ...
    Translated by Richard Howard ...
    Series series French Literature
    Part prophecy and part erotic fantasy, this classic tale of otherworldly depravity features New York itself—or a foreigner's nightmare of New York—as its true protagonist. Set in the towers and tunnels of the quintessential American city, Alain Robbe-Grillet's novel turns this urban space into a maze where politics bleeds into perversion, revolution into sadism, activist into criminal, vice into ... Read more

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  • Exteriors

    by Annie Ernaux ...
    Translated by Tanya Leslie ...
    WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURETaking the form of random journal entries over seven years, Exteriors captures the feeling of contemporary living on the outskirts of Paris. Poignantly lyrical, chaotic, and strangely alive. ... Read more

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    A debut collection that welcomes a new modernist aesthetic for the twenty-first century.Aswirl with waking dreams and phantom memories, The Late Parade is a triumph of poetic imagination. To write about one thing, you must first write about another. In Adam Fitzgerald's debut collection, readers discover forty-eight poems that yoke together tones playful and elegiac, nostalgic and absurd. ... Read more

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  • In the Skin of a Lion

    by Michael Ondaatje ...
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