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Author: Marguerite Duras ,
Rachel Kushner
Publisher: Everyman
Imprint: Everyman's Library
Dimensions:
Width: 13.30cm
, Height: 2.70cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.544kg
ISBN: 9781841593807
ISBN 10: 184159380
Pages: 504
Publication Date: 07 September 2017
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
PRACTICALITIES: Many of the anecdotes are small masterpieces ... a delight to read. * New Statesman * WARTIME NOTEBOOKS: By turns ardent, raging, sensual and embittered ... A dreamlike, savage world, in which the great themes of love, war and death found their most recklessly impassioned chronicler. * Observer * Perfect, a tour de force ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death. * New York Times Book Review * THE LOVER: Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written. * Spectator *
THE LOVER: Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written. Spectator Perfect, a tour de force ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death. New York Times Book Review WARTIME NOTEBOOKS: By turns ardent, raging, sensual and embittered ... A dreamlike, savage world, in which the great themes of love, war and death found their most recklessly impassioned chronicler. Observer
THE LOVER: Rarely have I read a novel so flawlessly written. * Spectator * Perfect, a tour de force ... dealing successfully with the strong themes of erotic love and death. * New York Times Book Review * WARTIME NOTEBOOKS: By turns ardent, raging, sensual and embittered ... A dreamlike, savage world, in which the great themes of love, war and death found their most recklessly impassioned chronicler. * Observer * PRACTICALITIES: Many of the anecdotes are small masterpieces ... a delight to read. * New Statesman *
Author Information
Marguerite Duras (Author) Marguerite Donnadieu, known as Marguerite Duras (4 April 1914 - 3 March 1996), was a French novelist, playwright, screenwriter, essayist, and experimental filmmaker. Her 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour earned her a nomination for Best Original Screenplay at the Academy Awards.Duras was the author of many novels, plays, films, interviews, essays, and works of short fiction, including her best-selling, highly fictionalized autobiographical work L'Amant (1984), translated into English as The Lover, which describes her youthful affair with a Chinese man. It won the Goncourt prize in 1984. Rachel Kushner (Introducer) Rachel Kushner is the author of The Mars Room, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. Her previous novels, Telex from Cuba and The Flamethrowers, were both New York Times bestsellers and finalists for the National Book Award. Her fiction has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's and the Paris Review. She lives in Los Angeles.
