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Astragal
Albertine Sarrazin
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Description for Astragal
paperback. Tells the story of Anne, a young woman who breaks her ankle in a daring escape from prison. She makes it to a highway where she's picked up by a motorcyclist, Julien, who's also on the run. As they travel through nights and days together, they fall in love and must do whatever they can to survive, living their lives always on the edge of danger. Series: Serpent's Tail Classics. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 134 x 14. Weight in Grams: 174.
'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 99 cents on a novel that would change her life forever. The book was Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin. Sarrazin was an enigmatic outsider who had spent time in jail and who wrote only two novels and a book of poems in ... Read more
'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 99 cents on a novel that would change her life forever. The book was Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin. Sarrazin was an enigmatic outsider who had spent time in jail and who wrote only two novels and a book of poems in ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Serpent's Tail
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Series
Serpent's Tail Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846689413
SKU
V9781846689413
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99-98
About Albertine Sarrazin
Albertine Sarrazin (1937-67) was a French-Algerian writer. At an early age she abandoned her studies and turned to a life of crime and prostitution. She wrote her first two novels in prison and died at twenty-nine. Patsy Southgate (1928-98) was an integral figure of both the 1950s Parisian literary scene and the New York School. ... Read more
Reviews for Astragal
Astragal is amazing ... Anne is a wonderful anti-hero - a rare role for a woman - and her journey is thoughtfully and poetically expressed. She is the best of the bad girls: spend time with her.
Anna Fielding
Emerald Street
Astragal is a spirited journey through the dark underbelly of Paris in the 1960s that leaps ... Read more
Anna Fielding
Emerald Street
Astragal is a spirited journey through the dark underbelly of Paris in the 1960s that leaps ... Read more