Trading Secrets (Paperback)

Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 1998, this book is the work of one of France's most celebrated and interesting novelists writing at the height of her powers. It is fiction that leads readers through fascinating chambers of life where autobiography is constantly reimagined. A darkly comic novel about four women aging less-than-gracefully, "Trading Secrets" takes us to an academic conference in Kansas where, in an encounter between Aurore, a French woman, and her American counterpart, Gloria, the differences between their two cultures become sharply apparent. The result is a bitingly funny portrait of painfully complex, psychologically damaged individuals, all of whom have been, in some sense, "colonized." The novel also offers an incisive picture of a French posture toward things American, from race relations to feminism to academia. As Paule Constant herself has said: "C'est un livre en miroir." The book is a mirror, both in how its characters reflect one another and in what it shows us of ourselves and our world.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	European Women Writers
Release date:	September 2001
First published:	September 2001
Authors:	Paule Constant
Translators:	Betsy Wing
Introduction by:	Margot Miller
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade / Trade
Pages:	165
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6404-5
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction
LSN:	0-8032-6404-6
Barcode:	9780803264045

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