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Bye Bye Blondie

Bye Bye Blondie - Paperback

by Virginie Despentes
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Availability:Out of StockContributor:Virginie DespentesPublish date:2016-07-12Pages:365
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Feminist PressISBN-13:9781558619272ISBN-10:1558619275UPC:9781558619272Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, RomanceBook Topic:ContemporarySize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCT71G39FN

In a wrecked modern version of a romance novel, acclaimed French writer Virginie Despentes pokes at the simultaneous ecstasy and banality of love in an age of psychiatry and punk.

Gloria lives in seething rage, lashing out at everyone--particularly, a string of bewildered boyfriends--at the local bar. But when her latest explosion leaves her out on the street, she unexpectedly runs into famed television personality Eric Muir. Incidentally, he's also her teenage boyfriend, and the one who started it all. Once upon a time, Gloria and Eric met while institutionalized, and then became a mascot couple for those homeless and high on a noisy mix of drugs, music, and counterculture.

Now, twenty years later, Gloria is enamored by youthful love resurrected and determined to immortalize their story by writing a screenplay. Whisked away to Paris, she's transformed from a provincial loose cannon into an urbane party guest. But navigating life and love isn't any easier for the middle-aged. Cutting deep to unearth the marriage of institutional violence and heterosexual relationships, Bye Bye Blondie illustrates how young women are continuously dragged down and neglected, and then dangled false offers of fame in lieu of real, redemptive recognition.

Languages:EnglishPublisher:Feminist PressISBN-13:9781558619272ISBN-10:1558619275UPC:9781558619272Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Literary, Women, RomanceBook Topic:ContemporarySize:7.90 x 5.40 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCT71G39FN
Virginie Despentes is a writer, filmmaker, and noted French feminist critic. She is the author of many award-winning books, including King Kong Theory, Apocalypse Baby (winner of the 2010 Prix Renaudot), and the Vernon Subutex trilogy (shortlisted for the 2018 International Booker Prize). She co-directed the screen adaptations of her controversial novels Baise-Moi and Bye Bye Blondie, and served as screenwriter for the adaptation of her novel Pretty Things.

Sian Reynolds has translated many books on French history, including most of the works of Fernand Braudel. Recent translations include fiction by Virginie Despentes, Antonin Varenne and French crime novelist, Fred Vargas. Four Vargas translations have been awarded the Crime Writers' Association International Dagger (2006, 2007, 2009, 2013). She is professor emerita of French at the University of Stirling, Scotland.
Publisher: Feminist Press

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