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BRIEFLY NOTED.(The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez's new novel)(Book review)
The Last of Her Kind, by Sigrid Nunez (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $25). Nunez's ruthlessly observed portrait of countercultural America in the sixties and seventies opens in 1968, when two girls meet as roommates at Barnard College. Ann is rich and white and wants to be neither, confiding, "I wish I had been born poor"; Georgette has no illusions about poverty, having just escaped her depressed home town, where "whole families drank themselves to disgrace." Georgette finds Ann at once despicable and mesmerizing, and she's stunned--if not entirely surprised--when, years after the end of their friendship, Ann is arrested for killing a cop. In previous works, Nunez has proved herself a master of psychological acuity. Here her ambitions are grander, and the result is a remarkable and disconcerting vision of a troubled time in American history, and of its repercussions for national and individual identity.
The House of Scorta, by Laurent Gaude, translated from the French by Stephen Sartarelli and Sophie Hawkes (MacAdam/Cage; $23). This slender chronicle of a southern Italian family in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries won France's Goncourt Prize. The family patriarch is a bandit who rapes a village woman and is stoned to death; his (rather willing) victim dies soon after childbirth. Their son becomes an infamous and wealthy outlaw, whose three children, left penniless when he bequeaths all his money to the Church, strive to reestablish their name and their fortune. The already operatic story line is embellished with grandiose flourishes--burning desire that leads to an actual fire, guilt that gnaws until its sufferer starves to death--but, happily, it is also underpinned by a deeper concern with sacrifice and redemption.
Better for All the World, by Harry Bruinius (Knopf; $30). In 1927, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of ...
- Veteran's day.(Sigrid Nunez, 'For Rouenna: A Novel')
- Magazine article from: The Women's Review of Books Ruta, Suzanne April 1, 2002 700+ words
For Rouenna: A Novel by Sigrid Nunez. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001, 230 pp...those who can't write poetry," Simone Weil once said. Sigrid Nunez' latest novel, For Rouenna, is a case in point Here we have...
- Books That Made a Difference to Sigrid Nunez: Dickens. Woolf. A searing memoir...
- Magazine article from: O, The Oprah Magazine March 1, 2006 700+ words
...be, nothing will ever change, nobody will ever die." Sigrid Nunez's Bookshelf The Enigma of Arrival By V.S. Naipaul This...about good and evil, and the redemptive power of love. Sigrid Nunez's new novel is The Last of Her Kind (Farrar, Straus and...
- Of cannibals and colonizers: irony, gender, and ecology in Rouge...
- Magazine article from: Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies Racevskis, Roland September 22, 2006 700+ words
...conclude with a reading of Rouge Bresil, winner of the 2001 Goncourt Prize, in a twenty-first-century context. A member of Doctors...of an impoverished climate. L'Abyssin, which won the Goncourt Prize for a first novel, satirically explores the French presence...
- A rebel in search of her cause; A pair of 1960s college roommates is reunited...
- Newspaper article from: The Christian Science Monitor February 21, 2006 700+ words
...Drayton. Or, as her roommate, Georgette George, puts it in Sigrid Nunez's excellent fifth novel The Last of Her Kind, "She did...freelance writer in Kalamazoo, Mich. The Last of Her Kind By Sigrid Nunez Farrar, Straus and Giroux 375 pp., $25 (c) Copyright...
- A brief conversation with Tahar Ben Jelloun.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Simon, Daniel March 1, 2009 700+ words
...drawn your attention of late? TBJ Right now, while occupied with the extensive reading I'm doing as a member of the Goncourt Prize jury, I take a break by watching the classic films of the 1940s and '50s, notably those by Fritz Lang, Mireille Ozy...
- Creole Folktales.(Brief Article)
- Magazine article from: Publishers Weekly January 30, 1995 700+ words
Patrick Chamoiseau. New Press, $16.95 (128p) ISBN 1-56584-185-9 The 1992 winner of France's Goncourt Prize brilliantly retells 12 tales from his home island of Martinique in his first book to be published in the U.S. Included are...
- SUMMER ILLUMINATION.(Books)
- Newspaper article from: Albuquerque Journal (Albuquerque, NM) August 6, 2000 700+ words
...s reimagining of Napoleon's first major defeat on land, the Battle of Essling in 1809. The book won the prestigious Goncourt Prize and the French Academy's Grand Prize of Rome. *"The Way the Family Got Away" by Michael Kimball. (Four Walls, Eight...
- PEOPLE: Quignard wins France's leading literary prize.
- News wire article from: Europe Intelligence Wire October 29, 2002 700+ words
(From The Independent) Pascal Quignard won the Goncourt prize, France's top literary award, yesterday for a collection of aphorisms and reflections on the past. Les Ombres Errantes (The...
- Tout-Monde.
- Magazine article from: World Literature Today Arnold, A. James January 1, 1995 700+ words
...and Raphael Confiant primarily), who proclaim their indebtedness to Glissant rather loudly and insistently, garnered a Goncourt Prize in 1992 for Chamoiseau's Texaco, which epitomizes the Creolist poetic by unfolding the entire history of an island nation...
- Staman, A. Louise. With the Stroke of a Pen: the Remarkable Life and Infamous...
- Magazine article from: Library Journal Salony, Mary October 1, 2002 700+ words
...Semitic works as well as the works of Jews and Marxists. When he was on trial for Nazi collaboration, he won the prestigious Goncourt prize for a publication by Elsa Triolet, a Russian Jew. In December 1945, Denoel was on the way to the theater with a woman...
