Candy Story (European Women Writers) - Softcover

Redonnet, Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803239157 ISBN 13: 9780803239159

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press, 1995

Synopsis

Candy Story recounts a turbulent year in the life of Mia, a young woman whose apparent calm is perpetually threatened by inner doubts and outer catastrophe. Her modest dreams of happiness are dashed by the deaths of her mother, old friends, and her lover. Mia is a talented writer, the author of an autobiographical novel. Now, assailed by calamity and misfortune, she struggles with writer’s block, confounded—at least for the moment—by the senseless world around her. Candy Story is the fourth novel by Marie Redonnet. Translations of the first three—Hôtel Splendid, Forever Valley, and Rose Mellie Rose—are also available from the University of Nebraska Press. In its unadorned prose and passionate focus on the inner life of a young woman, this fourth novel is unmistakably allied to the earlier ones. It will enthrall Redonnet’s admirers and win new ones. Born in Paris in 1947, Redonnet taught for a number of years in a suburban lycée before deciding to pursue a writing career full time. Since her volume of poetry Le Mort & Cie appeared in 1985, she has published four novels, a novella, numerous short stories, and three dramatic works.

About this title

About the Author

Alexandra Quinn is a program associate at The Academy of American Poets in New York. This is her first book-length translation.

Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0803239157
• ISBN 13: 9780803239159
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 99