Lili Is Crying - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Hélène Bessette, Kate Briggs (Translator), Eimear McBride (Introduction by)Publish date:2025-06-03Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811239660ISBN-10:811239667UPC:9780811239660Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, Literary, FeministProduct ID:SCNDKYF7VS
Lili Is Crying
Lili Is Crying, H�l?ne Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love--of desire run cold--and the promise of renewal. Lauded by critics on its initial publication in 1953 for its boundary-pushing style, Lili Is Crying...
Language:EnglishPublisher:New Directions Publishing CorporationISBN-13:9780811239660ISBN-10:811239667UPC:9780811239660Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Family Life, Literary, FeministProduct ID:SCNDKYF7VS
Bessette, H�l?ne: - H�l?ne Bessette (1918-2000) published thirteen novels with Gallimard between 1953 and 1973, won the Prix Cazes in 1954, and was twice in the running for the Prix Goncourt and the Prix M�dicis. In 1956, Bessette co-founded with her son Le Gang du roman po�tique (G.R.P): "The Gang of the Poetic Novel," an intergenerational literary movement of two. After her editor Raymond...
Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
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Hélène Bessette, Kate Briggs (Translator), Eimear McBride (Introduction by)
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