Anne-marie The Beauty

Anne-marie The Beauty
Yasmina Reza, Alison Strayer
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h211 x 140mm - 96pg
17 Jun 2021 UK
9780995580787
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Another thought-provoking master class in how we perform life by the award-winning novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza. "I was bored with my husband," says Anne-Marie, the irrepressible voice of Anne-Marie la Beaute, "but you know, boredom is part of love. " Mostly she is speaking here of her more famous friend and colleague, the French actress Giselle Fayolle, in whose shadow she has spent her career. "My life was a near miss," she adds, before explaining that she enunciated well because "I loved to say the words. " A very short novel with the power and resonance of a much longer one, Anne-Marie la Beaute is a profound and moving act of remembrance, a clear-eyed assessment of the hard-edged nature of fame, a meditation on aging--and a wonderfully observant and comic exploration of human foibles. In short, another thought-provoking master class in how we perform life by the peerless Yasmina Reza.
Yasmina Reza is a novelist and playwright. Her plays Conversations After a Burial, The Unexpected Man, Art, Life x 3, and God of Carnage have all been multi-award-winning critical and popular international successes, translated into more than thirty-five languages. Art was the first non-English language play to win the American Tony Award. God of Carnage, which also won a Tony Award, was adapted for film in 2012 by Roman Polanski. Her novels include Babylon (Seven Stories, 2018), which won the Priz Renaudot and was shortlisted for the Prix Concourt; Desolation; and Adam Haberberg. Anne-Marie La Beaute is her most recent novel. She lives in Paris. Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. Her novelJardin et prairiewas shortlisted for Canada' s Governor General' s Award for Literatureand theGrand Prix du livre de Montreal. Together with the French memoirist Annie Ernaux, Strayerwonthe Warwick Prize for Women in Translation and the French-American Translation Prize and was shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize for her translation of Ernaux' sThe Years. Strayer' s translation ofInfidelsby Abdellah Taia waslonglisted for the Albertine Prize,and her co-translation ofRencontres fortuitesbyMavis Gallantwasshortlisted for the Governor General' s Award for Translation. She lives in Paris.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780995580787
Published: 17 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Seven Stories Press UK
Publisher: Seven Stories Press UK
Format: Trade Paperback
Height: 211mm
Width: 140mm
Pages: 96

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