Men
An electric novel about Solange, a white French actress in Hollywood, and her attraction to Kouhouesso, a Black actor who wants to make a film of Heart of Darkness in Africa.
Work Information
Love, cinema, and racialized desire collide in a sharply observed novel.
A cinematic novel that stretches romance and stereotype into a sharp examination of desire and identity.
Book Information
- Publisher
- Text Pub Co
- Published
- 2016-10-11
- Pages
- 260 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 15.24 x 1.91 x 23.5 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9781925240917
- ISBN-10
- 1925240916
- Category
- 洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Thrillers/Psychological & Suspense
'As a chronicle of the humiliations and occasional joys of loving someone whose own feelings are more ambiguous...it feels queasily accurate...A sometimes biting, often sharply observed take on a relationship one would surely rather read about than be part of.'— Kirkus '[Readers will] find themselves enchanted by Darrieussecq&;s silken, dreamy prose and this sly exploration of female desire and interracial couplings.'— Booklist 'There are few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them.'— Times 'Anyone who has experienced heartbreak will relate but should beware because this is a moody, powerful book.'— The Age Solange is thirty-something, a mediocre actress, and not a great mother. In Hollywood she falls for a charismatic actor, Kouhouesso, who wants to direct a movie of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness —in Africa. Solange follows her man to Africa, determined to play a main role in both his film and his affections. But nothing goes to plan in this witty examination of romance, movie-making and clichés about race relations. After all, there's no guarantee you'll be loved by the one you love.
Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. Her debut novel, Pig Tales , was published in 34 countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. A Brief Stay with the Living and White have also been translated into English.