Villa E - Couverture souple

Alison, Jane

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1324096713 ISBN 13 : 9781324096719

Editeur : Liveright Publishing Corporation, 2025

Synopsis

Along the glittering coast of southern France, among a jungle of olive trees and aloes, a white villa rose from an earthen terrace. Eileen, a new architect previously known for her elegant chairs and furniture, built it as a haven for her and her lover; she realized each detail, designing the villa around their movements and habits. When the outspoken Le G, a founder of Modernist architecture, first laid eyes on the house, he could see his influence in the sleek lines. Affronted and impassioned, he took a paintbrush to the villa's clean, white walls . . .

Now, Le G is in the final week of his life. He has spent the last thirty years infiltrating Eileen's house, erasing her presence and forgetting her name. But finally, the tide has come in, and Eileen is called back to her beloved coastline, where both artists will contend with the transformative power of memory.

Inspired by the real-life collision of Irish designer Eileen Gray and famed Swiss architect Le Corbusier, and the extraordinary place that bound them, Jane Alison boldly reimagines a now-infamous feud into a lushly poetic and mesmerizing novel of power, predation, and obsession.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jane Alison is the author of The Love-Artist, The Sisters Antipodes, and the craft book Meander, Spiral, Explode: Design and Pattern in Narrative, among other titles. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Liveright Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1324096713
• ISBN 13: 9781324096719
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 192
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible