The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities by Marguerite Duras
A hardcover omnibus edition of the French writer's most famous novel--the basis for the film Memoir of War--alongside her fascinating wartime writings and a collection of intimate autobiographical essays.Marguerite Duras was one of the leading intellectuals and novelists of postwar France, but her wartime writings were not published in full until after her death. The Wartime Notebooks trace Duras's formative experiences--including her difficult childhood in Indochina and her harrowing wait for her husband's return from Nazi internment--revealing the personal history behind her bestselling novels. The Lover is the best known of these; set in prewar Indochina, its haunting tale of a tumultuous affair between an adolescent French girl and her wealthy Chinese lover is based on her own life. In spare and luminous prose, Duras evokes life on the margins in the waning days of France's colonial empire, and the passionate relationship between two unforgettable outcasts. Practicalities is a collection of small and intensely personal pieces Duras dictated near the end of her life. These deceptively simple meditations on motherhood, domesticity, sex, love, alcohol, writing, and more are witty, earthy, outspoken, and surprisingly fresh and relevant today.
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1984
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The Cairo Trilogy
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Animal Farm
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The Periodic Table
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The Stranger
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Song of Solomon
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Things Fall Apart
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Lolita
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The Border Trilogy
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The Collected Works of Kahlil Gibran
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We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live
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Carried Away
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The Plague, The Fall, Exile and the Kingdom, and Selected Essays
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David Golder, The Ball, Snow in Autumn, The Courilof Affair
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Love in the Time of Cholera
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The Fire Next Time; Nobody Knows My Name; No Name in the Street; The Devil FindsWork
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game
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The African Trilogy
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Rabbit Angstrom
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
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Giovanni's Room
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His Dark Materials
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Rebecca (National Book Award Winner)
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Foundation, Foundation and Empire, Second Foundation
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The Handmaid's Tale
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End of the World and Hard-Boiled Wonderland
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Collected Stories of Roald Dahl
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Life and Fate
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Collected Stories of Raymond Chandler
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Collected Stories of Franz Kafka
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The Magic Mountain
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The L.A. Quartet
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Midnight's Children
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The Collected Stories of Mavis Gallant
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Collected Stories of W. Somerset Maugham
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Dispatches
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The Trial
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The Big Sleep; Farewell, My Lovely; The High Window
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Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable
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Revolutionary Road, The Easter Parade, Eleven Kinds of Loneliness
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
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Catch-22
Marguerite Duras was one of Europe's most distinguished authors. She is best recognized outside of France for her filmscript Hiroshima Mon Amour and her Prix Goncourt-winning novel THE LOVER, which was also adapted into a film. LA DOLEUR, BLUE EYES BLACK HAIR, SUMMER RAIN, and THE NORTH CHINA LOVER are among her other works. Marguerite Duras was born in Indochina in 1914 and died in 1996.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781101907931 |
| ISBN 10 | 1101907932 |
| Title | The Lover, Wartime Notebooks, Practicalities |
| Author | Marguerite Duras |
| Series | Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2017-11-14 |
| Number of pages | 504 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |