Forever Valley (European Women Writers) - Softcover

Redonnet, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803289510 ISBN 13: 9780803289512

Publisher: Bison Books, 1994

Synopsis

This mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dance hall. Gradually she embarks upon a "personal project": she digs pits in the rectory garden and "looks for the dead." Her story, which has brevity and magical intensity of a fairy tale, is marked equally by tragedy and dark humor.

Forever Valley is one of three novels that are the first works to appear in English by Marie Redonnet, one of France's most original new authors (the other novels are Hôtel Splendid and Rose Mellie Rose, both also available from the University of Nebraska Press). Translator Jordan Stump notes that these books "unmistakably fit together, although they have neither characters nor setting in common." In all three novels, Redonnet has said, "it is the women who fight, who seek, who create."

About this title

About the Author

Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

From the Back Cover

This mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dance hall. Gradually she embarks upon a "personal project": she digs pits in the rectory garden and "looks for the dead". Her story, which has the brevity and magical intensity of a fairy tale, is marked equally by tragedy and dark humor.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803289510
• ISBN 13: 9780803289512
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 117