Love Me Tender
Constance Debré
Belletristik/Erzählende Literatur
Beschreibung
'Destined to become a classic of its kind' Maggie Nelson
'One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years' Olivia Laing, Observer
When 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.
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<b>One of the most compulsive voices I've read in years</b> ... there'
Tight, present-tense prose (in a <b>crisp</b> translation by Holly James) ... <b>genuinely inspiring</b>
<b>A compulsive read, this is for fans of Virginie Despentes, Hervé Guibert and Guillaume Dustan</b>
<b>I am obsessed </b>with Debré'
<b>This book knocked my block off. One of a kind</b>
<b><i>Love Me Tender</i> is, without a trace of coyness, a love letter, both to a child and to a queer woman'
Painfully beautiful
Remarkable disciplined rage
A story that'
<b>Exhilarating</b>
<b>Written in clear and direct prose. Fearless and honest. Hard and soft. Resolute and tough and yes very tender</b>
<i>Love Me Tender</i> will break your heart and repair it and break it again, but not because it'
Constance'
<b>Committed to truth-telling, no matter how rough, </b>but also <b> intriguingly suspended in a cloud of unknowing and pain,</b> <i>Love Me Tender</i> is a <b> wry, original, </b>agonizing book <b>destined to become a classic of its kind</b>
In <b>cruel, brilliant sentences that tighten around the truth like teeth,</b> a <b>fierce </b>character emerges; a new kind of rebel in <b>a queer masterpiece</b>
<b>Ferocious emotional honesty </b>... A bracing read and a timely reminder that attitudes are often far slower to change than legislation
<i>Love Me Tender</i> is <b> written with edge and urgency</b> in a voice that is both <b>vulnerable </b>and in full command. I read it in one sitting and was taken over by its narrative energy and shocked by the story it tells
A <b>deadpan, tensile thread of a voice: calm, Camusian, comic, stark, relentless, and totally hypnotic</b>
<b>Intense</b>... a character <b>striving mightily for authenticity and honesty,</b> questioning and rending the veil of social norms, acknowledging the Absurd, in hopes of finding some more solid, albeit subjective, truth
<i>Love Me Tender</i> is a spitting, snarling <b> tour de force of fuck-you feminist defiance.</b> Pulling us straight from the tender moments of a mother meeting her estranged child, right into a whirlwind of lesbian pick-ups, Parisian apartment-hopping and chain smoking, Debré's novel is a stark reminder of society's suspicion towards women - particularly mothers -who resist easy definition. <b>Wry, bold and confronting</b>, <i>Love Me Tender</i> <b>insists on a woman'
Debré's writing aims to eradicate all origins and backstories, and with them the social roles they enforce, replacing them with an ethos of <b>radical self-fashioning</b> ... Debré's sprezzatura writing is <b>the literary equivalent of a shrug: a swashbuckling '
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