Southgate Patsy Translator (11 results)

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Missing dust jacket; Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Condition: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Condition: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Condition: Brand New. reprint edition. 190 pages. 8.00x5.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

hardcover. Condition: Good. Torn/worn dj. Good hardcover with some shelfwear; may have previous owner's name inside. Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine D. J. CLEAN Fine 1966 second printing HARDCOVER with fine dust jacket.

paperback. Condition: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. New York: Grove Press, 1967. First edition. First printing. Hardcover. Gray cloth with black spine lettering. Fine in a fine dust jacket, price-clipped. A tight, clean copy. Octavo, 172 pages. French-Algerian writer Albertine Sarrazin's semi-autobiographical novel "Astragal" follows Anne, a teenage runaway, as she flees prison and navigates the Parisian underworld. Sarrazin wrote the book while serving time, and died shortly after its publication from complications following kidney surgery at the age of 29. Her short life, marked by incarceration and escape, helped establish her as a cult figure in postwar French literature. "Astragal" ("L'Astragale") and her companion novel "La Cavale" were published simultaneously in France in 1965 and both became bestsellers. Translated from the French by Patsy Southgate. Sarrazin's work has since been embraced by later generations of feminist readers and writers as a symbol of female defiance and literary rebellion. Her work has been referenced in connection with Jean Genet and often taught alongside writers of marginalized identity and in discussions of carceral theory. "L'Astragale" was adapted twice for film: first in 1968, directed by Guy Casaril and produced by Pierre Braunberger, and again in 2015 in a version directed by Brigitte Sy and starring Leïla Bekhti as Anne.…

American first edition, first printing (with Grove's requisite statement for latter upon copyright page). 172 pages. Hardcover: H 21.25cm x L 14.5cm. Dust jacket rubbed with slight soiling and a few nicks; slender toning occurring along edges; 2.5cm tear at rear panel's bottom right with tape repair to verso; front flap is not price-clipped. Gray cloth with black spine lettering. Some toning/foxing to text block's top edge and fore-edge. Light toning to endpapers; interior pages are clean. Binding is firm. The novel was first published in France in 1965 by Paris publisher Jean-Jacques Pauvert; this 1967 Grove Press translation precedes the British edition (duplicating the Southgate translation) issued by London publisher Neville Spearman in 1968.…