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  • Thérèse and Isabelle

    by Violette Leduc ...
    Two French schoolgirls discover obsessive pleasures in repressed secrets in this "masterpiece on the tyranny of love" ( Independent, UK)."Violette Leduc was Simone de Beauvoir's protege, an erotic writer to match Jean Genet and a feminist tour de force" (Rafia Zakaria, The Guardian). With this startling new translation of Leduc's hidden classic, the groundbreaking Thérèse and Isabelle proves an ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

    by Violette Leduc ...
    Trapped in the depths of poverty, an old woman escapes into an existence where objects, streets, and entire cities have voices and personalities. Told with a feather-light touch and masterful compassion, this is a story for those moments when we catch ourselves talking to the furniture. ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • La Batarde

    by Violette LeDuc ...
    Translated by Derek Coltman ...
    Series series Dalkey Archive Essentials
    An obsessive and revealing self-portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Bâtarde relates Violette Leduc’s long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women.When first published, La Bâtarde earned Violette Leduc comparisons to Jean Genet for the frank depiction of ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Therese and Isabelle

    by Violette Leduc ...
    Censored in France in 1954, Therese and Isabelle was published for the first time in its full original version in 2000. Leduc's novella follows the story of a passionate love affair between two schoolgirls, aiming to describe 'as exactly, as minutely as possible the sensations of physical love'. ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • The Lady and the Little Fox Fur

    by Violette Leduc ...
    Series series Penguin European Writers
    'Violette Leduc's novels are works of genius and also a bit peculiar' Deborah Levy, from the introductionAn old woman lives alone in a tiny attic flat in Paris, counting out coffee beans every morning beneath the roar of the overhead metro. Starving, she spends her days walking around the city, each step a bid for recognition of her own existence. She rides crowded metro carriages to feel the ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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  • The Secret History

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  • The House We Grew Up In

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  • She Who Was No More

    by Pierre Boileau, Thomas Narcejac ...
    Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury ...
    Series Book 3 - Pushkin Vertigo
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