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Love me tender / Constance Debré ; translated by Holly James.
Van Pelt Library PQ2704.E236 L6813 2022
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Debré, Constance, 1972- author.
- Standardized Title:
- Love me tender. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Mothers and sons--Fiction.
- Mothers and sons.
- Lesbianism--Fiction.
- Lesbianism.
- Divorced women--Fiction.
- Divorced women.
- Absentee mothers--Fiction.
- Absentee mothers.
- Genre:
- Autobiographical fiction.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 165 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- South Pasadena, CA : Semiotext(e) ; [2022]
- Language Note:
- Translated from French.
- Summary:
- The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debré abandoned her marriage and legal career in 2015 to write full-time and begin a relationship with a woman. Her transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian was chronicled in her 2018 novel Play boy, praised by Virginie Despentes for its writing that is at once "flippant and consumed by anxiety." In Love Me Tender, writing graphically about sex, rupture, longing, and despair, Debré deals courageously with love in its many forms, reframing what it means to be a mother beyond conventional expectations.
- ISBN:
- 9781635901740
- 163590174X
- OCLC:
- 1285051723
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