Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal – $295
by rgonzalezr
Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal French Literature Series by Lydie Salvayre What happens when a writer throws herself into the service of one of the richest businessmen in the world? Will all the luxuries and corruption of the business world turn her into a complacent drone? Celebrated in France for her psychological novels, this latest from Salvayre (Everyday Life) deftly uses a farcical premise to examine greed, vanity, and power. Broke and bored in Paris, the unnamed […]
Categories: Novela Ficción • Tags: Dalkey Archive, Fiction, France, French, greed, New York, Novel, París, power, psychological, Salvayre, vanity