by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer · Belfond · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714450050
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«Folie d'une femme séduite» is the romantic novel by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer, published by Belfond in 2011 in paperback (779 pages, in French).
Agnès Dempster, aged sixteen, leaves her farm and settles in the city, where she meets Frank Holt, a stonemason who awakens in her an absolute passion. Her devotion leads her to renounce her former life and lose herself. When Frank flees that suffocating love, she sinks into madness.
The work was originally published in English in 1983 as 'The Madness of a Seduced Woman'; this French edition is translated by Eléonore Bakhtadzé. The novel is inspired by a true event.
An option for those seeking romantic fiction with historical setting and a psychological portrait of obsession.
Susan Fromberg Schaeffer was an American novelist and poet who was a Professor of English at Brooklyn College for more than thirty years. She won numerous national writing awards and contributed book reviews for The New York Times.
