Love Me Tender
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- Publisher PROFILE BOOKS LTD
- ISBN13 9781800814844
- ISBN10 1800814844
- Type Book
- Pages 176
- Published 2023
- Language English
- Bookbinding Paperback
Sections
English LiteratureLove Me Tender
Editorial PROFILE BOOKS LTD
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Book Details
'Destined to become a classic of its kind' Maggie Nelson'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, ObserverWhen Constance told her ex-husband that she was dating women, he made a string of unfounded accusations that separated her from her young son, Paul. Laurent trained Paul to say he no longer wants to see his mother, and the judge believed him. She approaches this new life with passionate intensity and the desire for an unencumbered existence, certain that no love can last.
Apart from cigarettes, two regular lovers and women she has brief affairs with, Constance's approach is monastic and military - she swims daily, reads, writes, and returns to small or borrowed rooms for the night. A starkly beautiful account of impossible sacrifices asked from mothers, Love Me Tender is a bold novel of defiance, freedom and self-knowledge.