Yasmina Reza, Author , trans. from the French by Carol Brown Janeway. Knopf $19 (144p) ISBN 978-0-375-41087-1
A curmudgeonly retired Parisian is the narrator of this delightful first novel by playwright Reza, author of the Tony Award–winning Art. Bienvenue
to Samuel's world, where too-cheerful Nancy, his second wife, "doesn't understand...
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Yasmina Reza, trans. from the French by John Cullen. Other Press, $20 (160p) ISBN 978-1-59051-692-8
Playwright and author Reza’s newest book is a fragmented novella of vignettes, all of which function as independent short stories. Reza follows more than a dozen characters struggling with marriage and loneliness—opening with “Robert Toscano,” a...
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Yasmina Reza, Author, Geraldine Touzeau-Patrick, Translator, Catherine McMillan, With George Braziller $20 (126p) ISBN 978-0-8076-1451-8
Originally published in France in 1997, this slim collection of delicately etched memories portrays scenes from the author's and her loved ones' lives. Reza, whose celebrated play Art was presented on Broadway in 1998, affectingly remembers her...
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Yasmina Reza, Author, Geoffrey Strachan, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $19.95 (145p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4315-6
French playwright and novelist Reza (Desolation) wryly channels the thoughts of the titular depressed, unhappily married 47-year-old writer: he has just been diagnosed by his optometrist with partial thrombosis and probable glaucoma, while his wife,
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