The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities: Introduction by Rachel Kushner Contributor(s): Duras, Marguerite (Author), Kushner, Rachel (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 1101907932 ISBN-13: 9781101907931 Publisher: Everyman's Library
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover Published: November 2017 Click for more in this series: Contemporary Classics |
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BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Biographical - Fiction | Literary |
Dewey: 848.912 |
LCCN: 2017028929 |
Series: Contemporary Classics |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 4.8" W x 8" L (1.14 lbs) 504 pages |
Features: Bibliography, Price on Product |
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Publisher Description: A hardcover omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel--the basis for the film Memoir of War--alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of intimate autobiographical essays. Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of postwar 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 prewar Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty, earthy, outspoken, and surprisingly fresh and relevant today. |
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