Trysting: A History of Vermont's Queen City (French Edition) - Softcover

Emmanuelle Pagano

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1908276762 ISBN 13: 9781908276766

Publisher: And Other Stories, 2016

Synopsis

Grains of sand, bridges, shampoo, a bike, board games, yoga, sellotape, birds, balloons, tattoos, wandering hands, tweezers, maths, fish, letterboxes, puppets, a vacuum cleaner, a ball of string – and love.

In this fiction of yous and mes, of hims and hers, Pagano choreographs the objects, gestures, places, and persons through which love is made real.

Advance Praise for Trysting:

‘It’s familiar, never banal. It has nothing performative, only secretive. […] It is all of an incredible sensitivity/finesse.’ Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle
‘It is an album of destinies. They each have their décor. They talk of first frosts, of the wood that must be entered, of the huge rubbish tips of life, of the disorder of houses. Of beds that are no longer made because they are too often occupied. Of the warmth of being at home and of finding oneself. This essential truth of what we are. Emmanuelle Pagano sends every reader back to familiar territory. Her book is full of discreet and recognisable emotion.’ Xavier Houssin, Le Monde
‘Under her pen which is an eye, Pagano exalts the wastage of time, its grand affair. Time and its ‘arbitrary wing’ as Lord Byron said. In this little game of references, it’s the sharp eye of Duras, that of La Vie materielle, that must be evoked, or of Violette Leduc and the essential fantasy of Emily Dickinson. Emmanuelle Pagano: remember her name!’ Thierry Clermont, Le Figaro
‘Prosaic but never vulgar, Emmannuelle Pagano dissects lovers’ promiscuity, interrogates the cartography of our emotional lives.’ Clémentine Goldszal, Les Inrockuptibles
‘Seizing reality at that troubling junction between the quotidian and the extraordinary, the banal and the poetic, this literary package/machine with no equivalent unknots the internal ‘ball of string’ where hides the points of departure or arrival, of love in a life or a night, of a daily rhythm or a sudden surprise.’ Alexandre Gefen, Le magazine littéraire

About this title

About the Author

Emmanuelle Pagano is the recipient of numerous awards, including the European Union Prize for Literature for her novel Les Adolescents troglodytes. The author of seven works of literature with the prestigious French publisher P.O.L, she lives in Ardéche, France.

Jennifer Higgins is a freelance translator and editor based in Oxford, U.K. Sophie Lewis’s translations include The Earth Turned Upside Down by Jules Verne, The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Aymé, and Thérèse and Isabelle by Violette Leduc. An editor at large for And Other Stories Publishing, she lives in London.

Review

Delights and surprises. . . . A sweet and bitter onslaught of love and desire, found and glimpsed, held and lost.” Kirkus

There's tremendous variety here. . . . Impressive.” Michael Orthofer, author of The Complete Review Guide to Contemporary World Fiction

A perspicacious, multifarious, and compelling fictional field report on how we get hitched or unhitched, coupled or uncoupled.” The Arts Fuse

There's so much beauty in Pagano's words. . . . It's a tapestry of prose throughout.” The Collagist

Here it feels as if one love story is told countless ways. It left me feeling the unknowable nature of love and love's loss. A real pleasure to read.” Sara Majka, author of Cities I’ve Never Lived In

Universal, yet utterly personal. . . . Beguiling and uncategorizable, it celebrates the joys and heartbreaks of being alive.” Mark Haber, Brazos Bookstore

Trysting is a mirror shattered in play: inscribed on each bright shard of glass, a fable about a fragment of love.” Joanna Walsh, author of Vertigo

Polyphonic, arboreal, rhizomatic, desperate, stunning.” Lauren Elkin, author of Flâneuse
Elusive yet familiar. . . . We recognize ourselves in these words.” Le Monde

In fragments, moments, short snippets, Trysting examines the bonds of love, exploring all that unites or separates us.” Elle magazine

In this little game of references, it’s the sharp eye of Duras . . . that must be evoked.” Le Figaro

Edition details

• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1908276762
• ISBN 13: 9781908276766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 176