Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize-winning author of C+nto

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Constance Debré Holly James

Playboy

'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize-winning author of C+nto

Constance Debré, Holly James

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Tuskar Rock
13 August 2024

Autobiography: literary; Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

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 Debre's unflinching account of new bachelorhood. Laconic, aggressive and radically truthful, she chronicles the process that made her one of the most important French writers today.

Translated by Holly James

By: Constance Debré
Translated by: Holly James
Imprint: Tuskar Rock
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 160g
ISBN: 9781800819849
ISBN 10: 1800819846
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 13 August 2024
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Constance Debre is the author of Love Me Tender, which won the Prix Litteraire des Inrockuptibles in 2020 and Playboy, which won the Prix de la Coupole in 2018. Nom, the final title in this autofiction trilogy, is forthcoming from Serpent's Tail and will be translated by Lauren Elkin. Holly James is a translator, writer and editor. Her translations have been published by Europa Editions and Semiotext(e).

Reviews for Playboy: 'An essential read' - Joelle Taylor, T.S. Eliot Prize-winning author of C+nto

Praise for Constance Debré -- : Tight, present-tense prose ... genuinely inspiring * Financial Times * A deadpan, tensile thread of a voice: calm, Camusian, comic, stark, relentless, and totally hypnotic -- Rachel Kushner Debré writes matter of factly, fluidly, scabrously, laying bare the hypocrisies of society, of institutions, of families ... direct the way a laser is direct -- Lauren Elkin 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