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The Beginners
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Fans of literary fiction interested in poignant explorations of love, desire, and emotional complexity will appreciate this novel. Readers who enjoy works by authors who blend sensuality with intellectual depth will find The Beginners a memorable and enticing read.
Quintessential Anne Serre—this restless, prowling novel explores love as a form of greed, and confused need as one shape of bereftness
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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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Critics praise The Beginners for its originality and enchantment. It has been called "strange, beguiling," and "hypnotic," with a quietly powerful narrative style. The novel is noted for its celebration of female desire and its ability to use classic literary elements to mesmerise readers, delivering an experience that is both exhilarating and morally provocative.
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ISBN: 9780811230315
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 06 July 2021
Country: United States
Imprint: New Directions Publishing Corporation
Contributors:
- Translated by Mark Hutchinson
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 15.0mm
Width: 114.0mm
Height: 185.0mm
Weight: 145g
Pages: 128
About the Author
The author of fourteen novels and short story books, Anne Serre was born in 1960. Her work has been acclaimed here as “hypnotic, enchanting” (Publishers Weekly), “tight and fabulist” (Full Stop), and ”strange and beguiling” (Kirkus). Mark Hutchinson was born in London in 1957 and lives in Paris. Among his many translations are René Char’s Hypnos: Notes from the French Resistance and The Inventors and Other Poems.
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