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The book of mother : a novel / Violaine Huisman ; translated from the French by Leslie Camhi.
Van Pelt Library PQ2708.U37 F8413 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Huisman, Violaine, 1979- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Fugitive parce que reine. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
- Mothers and daughters.
- Mental health.
- Mental health--Fiction.
- People with bipolar disorder--Fiction.
- People with bipolar disorder.
- Sisters--Fiction.
- Sisters.
- Paris (France)--Fiction.
- Paris (France).
- France--Paris.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 213 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First Scribner hardcover edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Scribner, 2021.
- Language Note:
- In English, translated from the French.
- Summary:
- Beautiful and charismatic, Catherine, a.k.a. "Maman," smokes too much, drives too fast, laughs too hard, and loves too extravagantly. During a joyful and chaotic childhood in Paris, her daughter Violaine wouldn't have it any other way. But when Maman is hospitalized after a third divorce and a breakdown, everything changes. As the story of Catherine's own traumatic childhood and adolescence unfolds, the pieces come together to form an indelible portrait of a mother as irresistible as she is impossible, as triumphant as she is transgressive.
- Notes:
- "Originally published in France in 2018 by Éditions Gallimard as Fugitive parce que reine"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 1982108789
- 9781982108786
- 9780349012322
- 0349012326
- OCLC:
- 1236259816
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