by Claude Pujade-Renaud · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782742701599
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«Belle mère» is the novel by Claude Pujade-Renaud, published by Actes Sud in paperback (161 pages, in French).
Eudoxie, forty-seven years old, meets Armand, a sexagenarian widower with a taciturn son, through an advertisement. When war takes Armand away, she is left in charge of Lucien, a stepson she did not choose; between them an unusual arrangement for living together emerges. The novel is a portrait of a woman and a melancholy farewell to a simple generation.
Subtitled «roman», this first edition was published in Arles (France) in 1994 and was awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens.
For fans of the French novel and portraits of characters with unconventional family relationships.
Claude Pujade-Renaud was a French writer, whose first novel Le Ventriloque appeared in 1978. She subsequently published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1994 for Belle mère, her novel on being a stepmother, and was a recipient of the French Writer's Guild Prize for her life's work.
