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Title Statement | The beginners / Anne Serre ; translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson. |
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Series | New Directions paperbook |
Author | Serre, Anne, 1960- |
Additional Contributors | Hutchinson, Mark |
Publication | New York: New Directions Publishing Corporation,2021. |
Extent of Item | 185 pages ; |
ISBN | 9780811230315 (pbk.) 0811230317 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 4068772 |
General Notes | Translation of: Les débutants. |
Summary | Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude the Obscure. Adrift and lovelorn, she tries unsuccessfully to fend off her attraction, torn between the two men. 'How strange it is to leave someone you love for someone you love. You cross a footbridge that has no name, that's not named in any poem. No, nowhere is a name given to this bridge, and that is why Anna found it so difficult to cross.' Anne Serre offers here, in her third book in English, her most direct novel to date. The Beginners is unpredictable, sensual, exhilarating, oddly moral, perverse, absurd-- and unforgettable. |
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By Topic | Psychic trauma--Fiction |
Sexual attraction--Fiction | |
Triangles (Interpersonal relations)--Fiction | |
Couples--Fiction | |
By Genre | Psychological fiction |