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  • The Easy Life

    A Novel

    Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan ...
    For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's foundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense ... Read more

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  • Jean-Luc Persecuted

    by C.F. Ramuz ...
    Translated by Olivia Baes ...
    Jean-Luc Persecuted follows the ill-fated life of an unhappily married man. When Jean-Luc’s wife pursues an affair and leaves him with their child, Jean-Luc’s behavior becomes more and more erratic. He falls to drinking, behaving recklessly, and squandering his money. The narrative follows the explosive downfall of a lone man and his unstoppable mental collapse, surrounded by villagers unable to ... Read more

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  • Into the Sun

    by C. F. Ramuz ...
    Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan ...
    Into the Sun—a radically strange and frighteningly prescient climate-disaster novel written a century ago by C. F. Ramuz, the great and eccentric Swiss-French novelist—is a book to boil youIt’s been a hot summer for a Swiss lakeside town—both bucolic and citylike, old-fashioned and up-to-date—when a "great message," telegraphed from one continent to another, announces an "accident in the ... Read more

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  • The Queens’ Ball

    Translated by Kit Schluter, Olivia Baes ...
    Series series Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions
    The first English translation of Copi’s comic masterpiece, a careening pyrotechnic picaresque across France, America, and Ibiza.Set among the flamboyant demi-monde of the 1970s Paris underground, The Queens’ Ball follows the narrator Copi in his attempt to write a novel as life comes undone around him. His Roman lover Pietro is stolen by a Marilyn Monroe impersonator whose coterie take up ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

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  • Six Films

    Translated by Olivia Baes, Emma Ramadan ...
    Series series Inpatient Press / Mercurial Editions
    The English-language debut of a beautiful and beguiling cycle of experimental texts by the legendary Marguerite Duras.In the late 1970s, Marguerite Duras embarked on an experimental journey to expand the boundaries of writing and film. For Duras, writing need not be text on a page nor cinema merely images on a screen. Six Films is the result of her efforts to redefine the two arts in order to ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Christian Bedtime Audio Plays - Daniel In The Lion's Den and More

    A Full Cast Production

    Series Audiobook 1 - Christian Bedtime Audio Plays

    Unabridged

    1 hour 4 min

    This collection of audio plays is targeted at young listeners with stories adapted from the Bible by Benjamin Owino. Stories are performed by a full cast with music and sound effects to bring Bible stories to life for a younger audience. Stories include Daniel in the Lion's Den, the Story of Joseph and the Childhood of Moses. This is part of the Christian Bedtime Audio Plays series from Historical ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    The Easy Life

    Narrated by Caroline Hewitt ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 39 min

    Bloomsbury presents The Easy Life by Marguerite Duras, read by Caroline Hewitt.For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras’s foundational masterpiece about a young woman’s existential breakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After ... Read more

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