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Darrieussecq, Marie

 
9781925603781: Our Life in the Forest

Synopsis

In the near future, a woman writes from the depths of a forest. Her body, like the world around her, is falling apart - she's down to one eye, one kidney, one lung. Before she was a psychotherapist, treating patients who had suffered trauma. Every two weeks she visited her 'half' a comatose double, whose body parts were available whenever needed. As a form of resistance the woman flees, along with other fugitives and their halves. But life in the forest is disturbing too - the reanimated halves behave like uninhibited adolescents, and when she sees a shocking image of herself on video, are her worst fears confirmed?

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À propos de l'auteur

Marie Darrieussecq is a French writer born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales (New Press, 1997), was published in 1996 and subsequently translated into thirty-five languages. She has written some fifteen books for adults, including novels, short fiction, a play, and nonfiction works. In 2013 she was awarded both the Prix Medicis and the Prix des Prix for her novel Men (Text Publishing Company, 2016). BEING HERE, her biography of Paula Modersohn-Becker, was originally released in 2016. She is a regular contributor to contemporary art magazines in France and Britain and also writes for Liberation and Charlie Hebdo. She lives in Paris.

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