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The beginners / Anne Serre ; translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson.
Van Pelt Library PQ2679.E67335 D4313 2021
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Athenaeum of Philadelphia - Fiction Snack Serre Beginners
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Serre, Anne, 1958- author.
- Series:
- New Directions paperbook ; 1507.
- New Directions paperbook ; 1507
- Standardized Title:
- Débutants. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Married women--Fiction.
- Married women.
- Adultery--Fiction.
- Adultery.
- French fiction--Translations into English.
- French fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Romance fiction.
- French fiction -- Translations into English.
- Romance fiction
- Fiction
- Love stories.
- Physical Description:
- 185 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 2021.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude the Obscure. Adrift and lovelorn, she tries unsuccessfully to fend off her attraction, torn between the two men. 'How strange it is to leave someone you love for someone you love. You cross a footbridge that has no name, that's not named in any poem. No, nowhere is a name given to this bridge, and that is why Anna found it so difficult to cross.' Anne Serre offers here, in her third book in English, her most direct novel to date. The Beginners is unpredictable, sensual, exhilarating, oddly moral, perverse, absurd-and unforgettable."-- Provided by publisher.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Schneidman Fund bookplate.
- ISBN:
- 9780811230315
- 0811230317
- OCLC:
- 1201299218
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