Astragal (Paperback, Main - Classic edition)

'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 99 cents on a novel that would change her life forever. The book was Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin. Sarrazin was an enigmatic outsider who had spent time in jail and who wrote only two novels and a book of poems in her short life - she died the year before Patti found her book, at the age of twenty-nine. Astragal tells the story of Anne, a young woman who breaks her ankle in a daring escape from prison. She makes it to a highway where she's picked up by a motorcyclist, Julien, who's also on the run. As they travel through nights and days together, they fall in love and must do whatever they can to survive, living their lives always on the edge of danger. A bewitching and timeless novel of youthful rebellion and romance, this new edition of Patsy Southgate's original translation includes an introduction by Patti Smith.

General

Imprint:	Serpent's Tail
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Serpent's Tail Classics
Release date:	March 2014
Authors:	Albertine Sarrazin
Introduction by:	Patti Smith
Dimensions:	196 x 128 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	192
Edition:	Main - Classic edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-84668-941-3
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	1-84668-941-4
Barcode:	9781846689413

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