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Love Me Tender
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Ideal for readers of contemporary literary fiction interested in themes of queer identity, motherhood, emotional resilience, and social critique. Suitable for those who appreciate candid, unflinching narratives and poetic prose.
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance
A provocative and fierce novel about motherhood, self-discovery and defiance
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'Destined to become a classic of its kind' - Maggie Nelson
'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' - Olivia Laing, Observer
When Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating women, he made a string of unfounded accusations that separated her from her young son, Paul. Laurent trained Paul to say he no longer wants to see his mother, and the judge believed him.
She approaches this new life with passionate intensity and the desire for an unencumbered existence, certain that no love can last. Apart from cigarettes, two regular lovers and women she has brief affairs with, Constance's approach is monastic and military - she swims daily, reads, writes, and returns to small or borrowed rooms for the night.
A starkly beautiful account of impossible sacrifices asked from mothers, Love Me Tender is a bold novel of defiance, freedom and self-knowledge.
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'Committed to truth-telling, no matter how rough, but also intriguingly suspended in a cloud of unknowing and pain, Love Me Tender is a wry, original, agonizing book destined to become a classic of its kind' – Maggie Nelson.
'Love Me Tender will break your heart and repair it and break it again... a brutal manifesto of how to live an honest life, direct the way a laser is direct' – Lauren Elkin.
'A deadpan, tensile thread of a voice: calm, Camusian, comic, stark, relentless, and totally hypnotic' – Rachel Kushner.
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781800814844
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 09 November 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Tuskar Rock
Edition: Main
Contributors:
- Translated by Holly James
- Edited by Peter Straus
- Edited by Hedi El Kholti
- Edited by Peter Straus
- Edited by Hedi El Kholti
- Translated by Holly James
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 20.0mm
Width: 130.0mm
Height: 196.0mm
Weight: 151g
Pages: 176
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About the Author
Constance Debré has written two other novels, Play Boy, which won the Prix de la Coupole in 2018, and Nom. Love Me Tender won the Prix Littéraire des Inrockuptibles in 2020.
Holly James is a translator, writer and editor. Her translations have been published by Europa Editions and Semiotext(e).
Also by Constance Debré
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