Rose Mellie Rose (European Women Writers) - Softcover

Redonnet, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803289529 ISBN 13: 9780803289529

Publisher: Bison Books, 1994

Synopsis

This is the story of Mellie, who as a baby is found in a grotto, then raised in a souvenir shop by Rose. At age twelve Mellie goes to the dying town of Oât, where she enters premature adulthood and assembles a photographic and written record of her life. Enchanting, realistic, comic, tragic—all these words describe this spellbinding novel that, like all genuine fables, takes us to a world that is utterly strange and very much our own. 

Rose Mellie Rose 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 Forever Valley, 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 is the story of Mellie, who as a baby is found in a grotto, then raised in a souvenir shop by Rose. At age twelve Mellie goes to the dying town of Oat, where she enters premature adulthood and assembles a photographic and written record of her life.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bison Books
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0803289529
• ISBN 13: 9780803289529
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 123