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Out of print in the U.S. for far too long, writer and filmmaker Virginie Despentes’s autobiographical feminist manifesto is back―in an improved English translation―“blistering with anger, and so precisely phrased that it feels an injustice to summarize it” (Nadja Spiegelman, New York Review of Books).
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Contemporary, spare, character-led and overwhelming.
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- sparerichly built
- character-ledplot-driven
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About the book
- Author
- Virginie Despentes
- First published
- 2006
- Pages
- 159
- Publisher
- B. Grasset, The Feminist Press, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
- Editions
- 21
- Language
- French, English
- ISBN
- 9783462052398
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