We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau

We Always Treat Women Too Well by Raymond Queneau

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the staff. The events that follow are not for prudish readers, forming a scintillating, linguistically delightful and hilarious narrative. By far Queneau’s bawdiest work, We Always Treat Women Too Well contains all of its author’s hallmarks: wit, stylistic innovation and formal playfulness – expertly rendered into English by Barbara Wright’s classic translation.

Endowed with Queneau’s cerebral prankishness, electric pace and cut-on-the-bias poetry-- John Updike

Raymond Queneau (1903–76) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician. He is best remembered for Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro.

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ISBN 10	1847497128
Title	We Always Treat Women Too Well
Author	Raymond Queneau
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Alma Books Ltd
Year published	2017-07-04
Number of pages	144
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