La Batarde

Leduc, Violette

ISBN 10: 1573226092 / ISBN 13: 9781573226097

Published by Penguin Publishing Group, 1997

Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good. Seller Inventory # 55211899-6

Synopsis:

A candid account of the author's first forty years, revealing a woman humiliated by personal circumstances and appearance but determined to establish an identity through passionate and agonizing love affairs with men and women

Review: "Notoriety aside, Leduc is first and foremost a first-rate writer. Not someone who just tells a provocative story and is unafraid to reveal the most offensive parts of her personality and of her experience, but someone who is in love with words, struggles with them, wrestles with language, dies for adjectives, is tortured by her search for le mot juste."

"Whoever speaks to us from the depths of his loneliness speaks to us of ourselves. In La Batarde, a woman is descending into the most secret part of herself and telling us about all she finds there with an unflinching sincerity, as though there were no one listening."

"La Batarde is one of the most extraordinary books to have come out of France in some time."

"La Batarde is one of the most extraordinry books to have come out of France in some time."--Kirkus Reviews

Whoever speaks to us from the depths of his loneliness speaks to us of ourselves. In "La B?tarde," a woman is descending into the most secret part of herself and telling us about all she finds there with an unflinching sincerity, as though there were no one listening.--Simone de Beauvoir

Bibliographic Details

Title: La Batarde
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Good