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Anne Lardeux was raised in France and lives and works in Montreal, where she painstakingly follows her ideas and convictions where they lead. Her multidisciplinary practice spans music, film, and writing, and is not easily separable from her social activism and caring work. Together they constitute an unsparingly honest but playful interrogation of how we live that turns up glimmers of hope in unlikely places.The Second Substance(Les mauvais plis) is her first novel.
Shelve Anne Lardeux with Quebecoise writers like Mikella Nicol and Christiane Vadnais, and internationally with Yun Ko-eun, Veronique Tadjo, Jenny Hval, and Sandrine Colette-writers whose characters are terrorized and galvanized by narrative. - Marcie McCauley, World Literature Today Much like the self-described mind of the book's primary narrator The Girl With No Name, Lardeux's writing is 'sharp as a blade but tender' and, with this assured first book, claims a unique corner of its own within the wide field of contemporary dystopian lit. - Alexa W., Powell's Books After reading [The Second Substance], you may forget how to read from left to right, or walk by putting one foot in front of the other ... A mix of black humour, the absurd, and little stories in a highly inventive style ... - Le Matricule des Anges (France) A strongly erotic first novel swept along by free, sensual writing, an ode to the daughters of fire and the poetry of the body. - Les libraires (Quebec) Walk in the woods, hunt, chop wood, fuck, sleep - and the cycle repeats... a return to animal instincts and the senses [...] A compelling first novel with a surprising mastery of language and style. - Bruno Cloutier (Quebec)
