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Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Description
284 pages : illustration, ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Plagued by insomnia for twenty years, Marie Darrieussecq turns her attention to the causes, implications, and consequences of sleeplessness: a nocturnal suffering that culminates at four a.m. and then defines the next day. Prevented from falling asleep by her dread of exhaustion the next day, Darrieussecq turns to hypnosis, psychoanalysis, alcohol, pills, and meditation. Her entrapment within this spiraling anguish prompts her inspired, ingenious...
3) Night
Author
Language
English
Description
A terrifying account of the Nazi death camp horror that turns a young Jewish boy into an agonized witness to the death of his family... the death of his innocence... and the death of his God.
"When Elie Wiesel died in July 2016, the White House issued a memorial statement in which President Barack Obama called him "the conscience of the world." The whole of the president's eloquent tribute will appear as a foreword to this memorial edition of Night....
6) Mon autopsie
Author
Series
Livre de poche) volume 35524
Pub. Date
octobre 2019.
Physical Description
177 pages ; 18 cm
Language
Français
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 380
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Description
xxxvi, 466 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelist of post-war France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences - including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment - revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in pre-war...
Author
Series
Collection Folio) volume 42
Pub. Date
février 2021.
Physical Description
403 pages : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 18 cm
Language
Français
Description
"Marie Billetdoux (qui a repris le prénom souhaité par son père à sa naissance) raconte Raphaële Billetdoux. Elle nous révèle être devenue écrivain par la volonté d'une femme de l'ombre, sa mère, une « enchanteresse », orgueilleuse, asociale, grande séductrice par le verbe. Lorsque, douze ans après le succès de Mes nuits sont plus belles que vos jours et une maternité, Raphaële prend peu à peu conscience de cette dépendance anormale...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Description
170 pages : maps ; 18 cm
Language
Français
Description
"Il m'aura fallu courir le monde et tomber d'un toit pour saisir que je disposais là, sous mes yeux, dans un pays si proche dont j'ignorais les replis, d'un réseau de chemins campagnards ouverts sur le mystère, baignés de pur silence, miraculeusement vides. La vie me laissait une chance, il était donc grand temps de traverser la France à pied sur mes chemins noirs. Là, personne ne vous indique ni comment vous tenir, ni quoi penser, ni même...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Description
xviii, 134 pages : maps ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"A walking journey through France's vast interior becomes a meditation on both personal recovery and the role of history in the present-more than 425,000 copies sold in France. After a free-climbing accident lands him in a coma and a hospital for four months, the French writer Sylvain Tesson makes a promise to himself: if he's ever able to walk again, he will traverse the entire country of France on foot. Part literary adventure, part philosophical...
Author
Series
Livre de poche) volume 35523
Pub. Date
octobre 2019.
Physical Description
184 pages ; 18 cm
Language
Français
Description
"Ce roman vrai est la pierre d'angle de la grande saga des Jardin. Après le portrait du père merveilleux (Le Zubial), du sombre grand-père (Des gens très bien), du clan bizarre et fantasque (Le roman des Jardin), voici l'histoire de la mère d'Alexandre. On y découvre une femme hors norme, qui ose tout, et qui s'impose comme l'antidote absolu de notre siècle timoré. Elle est dans les yeux de son fils l'héroïne-née, la tisseuse d'aventures,...
Author
Language
English
Description
"A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world,"--NoveList.
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