Description
'The Susan Sontag of her generation' Deborah Levy The story of two couples who live in the same apartment in north-east Paris almost fifty years apart. In 2019, Anna, a psychoanalyst, is processing a recent miscarriage. Her husband, David, takes a job in London so she spends days obsessing over renovating the kitchen while befriending a younger woman called Clémentine who has moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective called les colleuses. Meanwhile, in 1972, Florence and Henry are redoing their kitchen. Florence is finishing her degree in psychology while hoping to get pregnant. But Henry isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood... Both sets of couples face the challenges of marriage, fidelity, and pregnancy. The characters and their ghosts bump into and weave around each other, not knowing that they once all inhabited the same space. A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Scaffolding is about the bonds we create with people, and the difficulty of ever fully severing them; about the ways that people we've known live on in us; and about the way that the homes we make hold communal memories of the people who've lived in them and the stories that have been told there. 'Atmospheric and evocative, the prose elegant and poised' Observer
| EAN: | 9781784742942 |
| Farbverschnitt: | Generell werden die Bücher ohne Farbverschnitt geliefert, auch wenn die Abbildungen einen Farbverschnitt zeigen. |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 13.06.2024 |
| Produktform: | Leinen, Gebunden |
| Autoren: | Elkin, Lauren |
| Seitenzahl/Blattzahl: | 391 |
| Themenüberschrift: | FICTION / Literary |
| Keyword: | books for women; summer reading; relationship books; literary fiction; love; friendship; relationships; contemporary fiction; womens fiction; paris; desire; summer of love; feminist fiction; feminism; psychoanalysis; best new books; eric rohmer; lacan; joan didion; rachel cusk; rebecca solnit; susan sontag; the cost of living deborah levy; maggie nelson; siri hustvedt; crudo olivia laing; janet malcolm |
| Fachschema: | Englische Belletristik / Roman, Erzählung~English Books~Englische Bücher~Paris / Roman, Erzählung~Siebziger Jahre / Roman, Erzählung |
| Fachkategorie: | Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Liebe und Beziehungen~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Tod, Trauer, Verlust~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Politik~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Raumwahrnehmung~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Soziales~Belletristik: Themen, Stoffe, Motive: Psychologisches Innenleben, Moderne und zeitgenössische Belletristik |
| Region: | Paris (City) |
| Zeitraum: | 1970 bis 1979 n. Chr.~2010 bis 2019 n. Chr. |
| Imprint-Titels: | Chatto & Windus |
| Verlag: | Random House UK Ltd |
| Länge: | 221 mm |
| Breite: | 142 mm |
| Höhe: | 43 mm |
| Gewicht: | 506 gr |
| Genre: | Importe |