Candy Story

Candy Story recounts a turbulent year in the life of Mia, a young woman whose apparent calm is perpetually threatened by inner doubts and outer catastrophe. Her modest dreams of happiness are dashed by the deaths of her mother, old friends, and her lover. Mia is a talented writer, the author of an autobiographical novel. Now, assailed by calamity and misfortune, she struggles with writer's block, confounded-at least for the moment-by the senseless world around her. Candy Story is the fourth novel by Marie Redonnet. Translations of the first three-Hôtel Splendid, Forever Valley, and Rose Mellie Rose-are also available from the University of Nebraska Press. In its unadorned prose and passionate focus on the inner life of a young woman, this fourth novel is unmistakably allied to the earlier ones. It will enthrall Redonnet's admirers and win new ones. Born in Paris in 1947, Redonnet taught for a number of years in a suburban lycée before deciding to pursue a writing career full time. Since her volume of poetry Le Mort & Cie appeared in 1985, she has published four novels, a novella, numerous short stories, and three dramatic works. Alexandra Quinn is a program associate at The Academy of American Poets in New York. This is her first book-length translation.

Author: Marie Redonnet, Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Published: 09/01/1995
Pages: 99
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.27lbs
Size: 7.50h x 4.77w x 0.35d
ISBN13: 9780803289581
ISBN10: 0803289588
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary

About the Author
Alexandra Quinn is a program associate at The Academy of American Poets in New York. This is her first book-length translation.

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