Marie Darrieussecq, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator New Press $18 (151p) ISBN 978-1-56584-361-5
""I suspect that any publisher who agrees to take on this manuscript will be heading for trouble,"" admits the unnamed female narrator of this brash first novel, which is set in France in the not-too-distant future. The narrator works in a beauty/mas
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Marie Darrieussecq, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator New Press $21.95 (114p) ISBN 978-1-56584-627-2
From the epigraph (taken from a Bj rk song) to the final pages, French sensation Marie Darrieussecq's (Pig Tales) Undercurrents (trans. by Linda Coverdale) is tinged with mystery and quiet menace. Without warning, a woman flees with her young...
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Marie Darrieussecq, Author, Esther Allen, Translator New Press $19.95 (154p) ISBN 978-1-56584-538-1
It was physics, the physics of the moment, and also the physics that describes the laws of memory, absence, and disappearances, explains the narrator of this small gem of a novel. Darrieussecq (Pig Tales) follows a French woman as she falls into a...
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Marie Darrieussecq, trans. from the French by Penny Hueston. Semiotext(e), $17.95 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-63590-008-8
Drawing on the letters and journals of her subject, Darrieussecq (Men) affectionately traces the brief life of German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), who is now recognized as a leading 20th-century expressionist despite selling only...
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