Playboy - 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize-winning author of C+nto
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| Verlag | Profile Books |
| Auflage | 2024 |
| Seiten | 176 |
| Format | 13,0 x 1,8 x 19,6 cm |
| Paperback with flaps. Klappenbroschur | |
| Gewicht | 160 g |
| Artikeltyp | Englisches Buch |
| EAN | 9781800819849 |
| Bestell-Nr | 80081984UA |
In this prequel to the critical sensation Love Me Tender, Constance Debré breaks free from conformity to live her life as a butch lesbian
§'Defiant, probing, hot' Saba Sams, author of Send Nudes
At the age of forty-three, the narrator abandons her marriage, her apartment and her successful legal career as a public defender to re-emerge as an out lesbian and a writer.
In a series of short, sharp vignettes, the narrator describes her first female lovers - a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior - punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father and her son.
Looking at the world through fresh eyes, she questions everything that once lay beneath the surface of her well-managed life. Unburdened by marital and familial obligations, a new woman emerges, free to examine gender and marriage, selfishness and sacrifice, money and family, even the privilege inherent in her downward mobility.
A compelling chronicle of transgression, Playboy is Constance Debré's unflinching account of new bachelorhood. Laconic, aggressive and radically truthful, she chronicle s the process that made her one of the most important French writers today.
Translated by Holly James
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Challenging yet empowering ... refreshing The New York Times
