| Jezebel Contributor(s): Nemirovsky, Irene (Author) |
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ISBN: 0307745465 ISBN-13: 9780307745460 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $15.30 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Jewish |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012000607 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.62" H x 5.18" W x 8.01" (0.49 lbs) 208 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A stunning novel about mothers and daughters, about vengeance, and an aging, still beautiful woman on trial for shooting her lover. In a French courtroom, the trial of a woman is taking place. Gladys Eysenach is no longer young, but she remains striking, elegant, cold. She is accused of shooting dead her much-younger lover. As the witnesses take the stand and the case unfolds, Gladys relives fragments of her past: her childhood, her absent father, her marriage, her turbulent relationship with her daughter, her decline, and then the final irrevocable act. With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the acclaimed author of Suite Francaise, Irene Nemirovsky shows us the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth. |