Melissa Broder
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Sous le signe des poissons
Melissa Broder
- Christian bourgois
- Litterature Etrangere
- 6 Mai 2021
- 9782267043976
Rien ne va plus pour Lucy : alors que sa thèse sur Sappho est au point mort, elle vit une grande rupture amoureuse et touche le fond de la dépression. Pour l'aider à remonter la pente, sa soeur lui propose de garder sa maison de Los Angeles le temps d'un été, à deux conditions : s'occuper de Dominic (son chien diabétique) et prendre soin d'elle.
Voici Lucy enrôlée dans un groupe de parole de femmes au bord de la crise de nerfs aussi drolatique que cruel, mais qui est loin de résoudre ses problèmes. Tout change un soir où Lucy rencontre en bord de mer un homme merveilleux - à bien des égards.
Tour à tour hilarant, cru et émouvant, Sous le signe des Poissons fait voler en éclats les injonctions au bonheur et à la résilience. Avec une franchise qui n'aurait pas déplu au Philip Roth de Portnoy et son complexe, Melissa Broder nous offre un roman d'amour inoubliable, celui d'une femme combattant l'appel du vide.
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A scathingly funny, wildly erotic and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex and god from the Women''s Prize longlisted author of The Pisces A STYLIST, INDEPENDENT, THE WEEK AND RED HIGHLIGHT FOR 2021 ''Sexy and fun and a little weird ... This riot of carnal pleasure will make you laugh as well as gasp'' The Times ''A revelation ... Melissa Broder has produced one of the strangest and sexiest novels of the new year ... Exhilarating '' Entertainment Weekly ''A luscious, heartbreaking story of self-discovery through the relentless pursuit of desire. I couldn''t get enough of this devastating and extremely sexy book'' Carmen Maria Machado, author of Her Body and Other Parties Rachel is twenty-four, a lapsed Jew who has made calorie restriction her religion. By day, she maintains an illusion of control by way of obsessive food rituals. At night, she pedals nowhere on the elliptical machine.
Then Rachel meets Miriam, a young Orthodox Jewish woman intent upon feeding her. Rachel is suddenly and powerfully entranced by Miriam - by her sundaes and her body, her faith and her family - and as the two grow closer, Rachel embarks on a journey marked by mirrors, mysticism, mothers, milk, and honey.
Pairing superlative emotional insight with unabashed vivid fantasy, Melissa Broder tells a tale of appetites: of physical hunger, of sexual desire, of spiritual longing. Milk Fed is a tender and riotously funny meditation on love, certitude, and the question of what we are all being fed, from one of our major writers on the psyche - both sacred and profane.>
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So sad today
Melissa Broder
- Editions de l'olivier
- Litterature Etrangere
- 24 Janvier 2019
- 9782823612738
« Je ne suis pas un être humain qui veut s'élever jusqu'à un état spirituel. Je suis un être spirituel expérimentant la condition humaine ».
Melissa Broder, grande dépressive devant l'Éternel, comble son appétit et son manque existentiels par tous les moyens possibles : drogues, alcool, sexe plus ou moins raté, histoires d'amour plus ou moins romantiques...
Elle a longtemps cherché une place dans le monde et la trouver n'a pas été une mince affaire : sa quête l'a conduite dans un centre de yoga tantrique, dans des chambres d'hôtel avec des hommes qu'elle a fantasmés, dans des boutiques New Age à la recherche des bons grigris pour conjurer ce mal. Mais tout cela n'est rien comparé à sa plus grande angoisse : comment supporter l'attente d'un texto qui ne vient pas ?
Melissa Broder écrit à la mitraillette, avec un humour ravageur et une franchise peu commune. Mais qu'on ne s'y trompe pas : en racontant tout ce qu'on préfère ordinairement taire de soi, elle trouve un moyen de nous parler de nous.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2019 'Of all the books that I read this summer I think this was my absolute favourite . It really blew me away' DOLLY ALDERTON 'Frank, provocative and brilliant' INDEPENDENT 'Utterly mesmerising' TATLER 'Hilarious, poignant, sexy. A brilliant story about why we crave connection and how to find ourselves' ELLE 'Laugh-out-loud funny' i CHOSEN AS A SUMMER READ BY TATLER , THE TIMES , ELLE AND YOU MAGAZINE Lucy has been writing her dissertation for nine years when she and her boyfriend have a dramatic break up. After she hits rock bottom, her sister in Los Angeles insists that Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Staying in a gorgeous house on Venice Beach, Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety - not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the dog's easy affection. Everything changes when she becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucy's understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn.
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LONGLISTED FOR THE CENTER FOR FICTION FIRST NOVEL PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION Bold, virtuosic, addictive, erotic there is nothing like The Pisces . I have no idea how Broder does it, but I loved every dark and sublime page of it. --Stephanie Danler, author of Sweetbitter Lucy has been writing her dissertation on Sappho for nine years when she and her boyfriend break up in a dramatic flameout. After she bottoms out in Phoenix, her sister in Los Angeles insists Lucy dog-sit for the summer. Annika's home is a gorgeous glass cube on Venice Beach, but Lucy can find little relief from her anxiety -- not in the Greek chorus of women in her love addiction therapy group, not in her frequent Tinder excursions, not even in Dominic the foxhound's easy affection. Everything changes when Lucy becomes entranced by an eerily attractive swimmer while sitting alone on the beach rocks one night. But when Lucy learns the truth about his identity, their relationship, and Lucys understanding of what love should look like, take a very unexpected turn. A masterful blend of vivid realism and giddy fantasy, pairing hilarious frankness with pulse-racing eroticism, THE PISCES is a story about falling in obsessive love with a merman: a figure of Sirenic fantasy whose very existence pushes Lucy to question everything she thought she knew about love, lust, and meaning in the one life we have.
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