Book
A woman's battles and transformations / Édouard Louis ; translated from the French by Tash Aw.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374606749 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: 100 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
- Edition: First American edition.
- Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Originally published in French as Combats et métamorphoses d'une femme: Paris : Éditions du Seuil, 2021. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
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| Subject: | Louis, Édouard > Family. Authors, French > 21st century > Family relationships. Mothers of authors > France > Biography. |
| Genre: | Biographies. Autobiographies. Personal narratives. |
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lakeshore Branch | 843.92 Louis | 31681010289601 | NONFIC | Available | - |
- Baker & Taylor
The internationally best-selling author discusses his mother's liberation from history, heartbreak, politics and power after she leaves his father. - Baker & Taylor
Growing up, Louis knew only his mother's sadness as she found herself trapped in the humdrum life of a housewife, and her struggles against the dominant world of men. At the age of forty-five she left her husband and her old life behind to start anew in Paris. As Louis reckons with the cruel systems that govern our lives, he honors her self-discovery and liberation as she chooses to live on her own terms. -- adapted from jacket - Baker & Taylor
The internationally best-selling author of The End of Eddy and History of Violence discusses his motherâs liberation from history, heartbreak, politics and power after she leaves his father. 20,000 first printing. Illustrations. - McMillan Palgrave
Long-listed for the National Book Critics Circle (NBCC) Barrios Book in Translation Prize
A Woman's Battles and Transformations is a portrait of the authorâs mother by the acclaimed writer of the international bestsellers The End of Eddy and History of Violence.
Late one night, Ãdouard Louis got a call from his forty-five-year-old mother: âI did it. I left your father.â Suddenly, she was free.
This is the searing and sympathetic story of one womanâs liberation: of mothers and sons, of history and heartbreak, of politics and power. It reckons with the cruel systems that govern our livesâand with the possibility of escape. Sharp, short, and fine as a needle, it is a necessary addition to the work of Ãdouard Louis, âone of Franceâs most widely read and internationally successful novelistsâ (The New York Times Magazine).
