13, rue Thérèse: A Novel
Autor Elena Mauli Shapiroen Limba Engleză Paperback – 4 mar 2012
As
Trevor
examines
and
documents
the
relics
the
box
offers
up,
he
begins
to
imagine
the
story
of
Louise
Brunet's
life:
her
love
for
a
cousin
who
died
in
the
war,
her
marriage
to
a
man
who
works
for
her
father,
and
her
attraction
to
a
neighbor
in
her
building
at
13
rue
Thérèse.
The
more
time
he
spends
with
the
objects
though,
the
truer
his
imaginings
of
Louise's
life
become,
and
the
more
he
notices
another
alluring
Frenchwoman:
Josianne,
his
clerk,
who
planted
the
box
in
his
office
in
the
first
place,
and
with
whom
he
finds
he
is
falling
in
love.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780316083331
ISBN-10: 031608333X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Reagan Arthur Books
ISBN-10: 031608333X
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Little, Brown and Company
Colecția Reagan Arthur Books
Notă biografică
Elena
Mauli
Shapiro
was
born
and
raised
in
Paris,
France,
in
an
apartment
below
the
real-life
Louise
Brunet's.
She
has
a
BA
from
Stanford
University
in
English
and
French,
an
MFA
in
Fiction
Writing
from
Mills
College,
and
an
MA
in
Comparative
Literature
from
UC
Davis.
This
novel
was
a
finalist
for
the
2009
Bakeless
literary
prize.
Recenzii
"13,
rue
Thérèseis
a
puzzle-novel
and
gave
me
the
same
fizzy
satisfaction
as
completing
a
Sunday
crossword.
It
will
light
up
your
brain
and
your
heart."—David
Ebershoff,
bestselling
author
ofThe
19th
Wife
and
The
Danish
Girl
"Shapiro's debut, an imaginative, sensual rendering of a Parisian woman's life, is told through the voice of Trevor Stratton, a young American scholar and translator working at a university in Paris. Stratton finds a box filled with objects dating back to WWI that once belonged to Louise Brunet, and his fascination with the box's contents-postcards, handkerchiefs, love letters, and other vintage keepsakes-leads him to imagine what Brunet's life in Paris might have been. What Stratton isn't aware of at first is that the box was left for him by Josianne, a secretary at the university, who is using the box and its contents to measure Stratton's romantic worthiness. As Stratton unfolds Brunet's story against the background of WWI battlefields and several inventions-a lover, Camille Victor, who dies in battle; a resulting unhappy marriage to husband Henri; and a passionate affair with a married neighbor, Xavier Langlais-he gradually comes to realize that Josianne is the source of his archival inspiration. The book is illustrated with photos of the actual objects owned by Shapiro, cleverly used as the novel's framing device."—Publishers Weekly
"Shapiro's debut, an imaginative, sensual rendering of a Parisian woman's life, is told through the voice of Trevor Stratton, a young American scholar and translator working at a university in Paris. Stratton finds a box filled with objects dating back to WWI that once belonged to Louise Brunet, and his fascination with the box's contents-postcards, handkerchiefs, love letters, and other vintage keepsakes-leads him to imagine what Brunet's life in Paris might have been. What Stratton isn't aware of at first is that the box was left for him by Josianne, a secretary at the university, who is using the box and its contents to measure Stratton's romantic worthiness. As Stratton unfolds Brunet's story against the background of WWI battlefields and several inventions-a lover, Camille Victor, who dies in battle; a resulting unhappy marriage to husband Henri; and a passionate affair with a married neighbor, Xavier Langlais-he gradually comes to realize that Josianne is the source of his archival inspiration. The book is illustrated with photos of the actual objects owned by Shapiro, cleverly used as the novel's framing device."—Publishers Weekly