PHANTOM LIFE - Hardcover
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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
From Publishers Weekly:
Original Language: French
In this insightful, unsparing analysis of the love affair between Laure, 26, and Pierre, 38, Sallenave delineates a triangle that is the very map and barometer of adultery. Pierre, a teacher, is cozily immersed in domestic comforts of children, dog, TV and bank-executive wife, while addicted to the stolen, danger-fraught ecstasy he shares with Laure. Their pasts prepared them: wayward, secretive Laure finds that adultery's peripheral "phantom life" frees her from "prickly questions" of marriage; Pierre's aca demic failure led him to teaching, which now gives him unfulfilled leisure. Books are the lovers' go-between, as librarian Laure (the Petrarchan name is noted) reads with Pierre in the hothouse of her bedroom, even as confidantes, parents and invidious gossips from the lovers' outside lives hover at its edge. Prize-winning novelist Sallenave (Prix Femina, Prix Renaudot) involves the reader deeply in her characters' predicaments, locating them with Flaubertian skill in the provincial society that entangles them.
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- PublisherPantheon
- Publication date1989
- ISBN 10 0394564537
- ISBN 13 9780394564531
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages245
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st American ed. ; 245 pp. ; ISBN: 0394564537 :; 9780394564531 LCCN: 88-43203 ; OCLC: 18835278 ; "Pierre is a teacher, married for ten years, the father of two children, not so much trapped by his wife as happily enmeshed in the routine of his household; his affair with 25-year-old Laure--a single librarian--adds spice, freedom, and danger to his life. But Laure realizes that what is freedom for Pierre is constraint for her and struggles with conflicting feelings: pity and condescension toward people who march lock-step into marriage versus her longing for ordinary family life. Her self-esteem demands that she distinguish her "understanding" with Pierre from the adulterous "affairs" that other people engage in, though she realizes t hat she is playing out every cliche about love with a married man: she is condemned to live a phantom life waiting for him to phone, being unable to call him at home; spending most of their time in bed since they cannot be seen in public; dealing with separations over holidays and family-oriented vacation times; suffering from curiosity and jealousy over his life "at home." "--Kirkus reports ; dust jacket back flap has tear ; slight soiling to fore edge, else FINE/G. Book. Seller Inventory # 619
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