Bibliograph

The beginners, Anne Serre ; translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson

Type

Label

The beginners, Anne Serre ; translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The beginners

Oclc number

1201299218

Responsibility statement

Anne Serre ; translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson

Series statement

New Directions paperbook, 1507

Summary

"Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of Jude the Obscure. Adrift and lovelorn, she tries unsuccessfully to fend off her attraction, torn between the two men. 'How strange it is to leave someone you love for someone you love. You cross a footbridge that has no name, that's not named in any poem. No, nowhere is a name given to this bridge, and that is why Anna found it so difficult to cross.' Anne Serre offers here, in her third book in English, her most direct novel to date. The Beginners is unpredictable, sensual, exhilarating, oddly moral, perverse, absurd-and unforgettable."--, Provided by publisher

Target audience

adult

Classification