Love Me Tender

Name: Love Me Tender
Brand: Allen & Unwin
SKU: 9781800814844
Price: 27.99 NZD
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By Constance Debré

Summary

Love Me Tender by Constance Debré is a bold and starkly beautiful novel chronicling the author’s struggle following her coming out to her ex-husband, which leads to her being separated from her young son. The narrative explores themes of defiance, freedom, and self-knowledge as Constance navigates a life marked by passionate intensity, monastic routines, and complex relationships. The book delivers a raw account of the impossible sacrifices mothers face, framed by Debré’s commitment to honesty and emotional clarity.
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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.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

'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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Constance Debré Fiction General Fiction Literary Fiction

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).

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