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Title: Mauve Desert
Condition: New
Author: Nicole Brossard
Translator: Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood
Contributor: Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood (Translated by), Sina Queyras (Afterword by)
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9781552451724
ISBN: 9781552451724
Publisher: Coach House Books
Genre: Fiction
Topic: Literary Criticism
Release Date: 04/04/2002
Description: First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, fifteen-year-old Melanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book -- Mauve, the horizon -- is Laures's eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original. Nicole Brossard's writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a landscape that shifts like wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.
Language: English
Country/Region of Manufacture: CA
Item Height: 203mm
Item Length: 127mm
Item Weight: 354g
Release Year: 2002

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