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Victorine: A Novel by Texier, Catherine
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物品細節
- 物品狀況
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Intended Audience
- Adult
- Inscribed
- NO
- ISBN
- 9780375421242
- Book Title
- Victorine : a Novel
- Item Length
- 9.3in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 2004
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Sagas, Literary
- Item Width
- 6in
- Item Weight
- 18.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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Product Information
In this lush, lyrical, and marvelously evocative novel, Catherine Texier takes a mystery from her family's past and draws from it a portrait of a remarkable woman-her great-grandmother Victorine. A young schoolteacher in a quiet province in France, Victorine had married and had two children. But when she falls desperately in love, she makes a startling choice, leaving her family for her lover and a new life in Indochina. On a single day in 1940, as Victorine reflects on her past, we travel back with her, from the willow-lined canals of her childhood home in Vendée to sun-drenched days and languorous nights along the Mekong River at the dawn of the twentieth century. Hers is an unforgettable story of adventure and self-discovery-of a woman's struggle between duty and independence, tradition and freedom, longing and regret. From the Hardcover edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375421246
ISBN-13
9780375421242
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5911534
Product Key Features
Book Title
Victorine : a Novel
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Sagas, Literary
Publication Year
2004
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.3in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
6in
Item Weight
18.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3570.E96v53 2004
Reviews
"Female sexuality--the driving force of Texier's abrasive earlier fiction (e.g.,Love Me Tender, 1987;Panic Blood, 1990)--takes a much more romantic form here. Billed as a mixture of fact and fiction and based on the little Texier knew about her eponymous great-grandmother, it's the story of a grand amour and its bittersweet aftermath. The narrative juxtaposes a day in 1940 when the elderly Victorine, living in France under German occupation, goes to the beach with her middle-aged youngest son--with Victorine's staggered memories of her youth, marriage, adultery, and repentance. The latter are revealed in gorgeously written extended flashbacks in which we observe, in the early pages, a young girl who is "good at pretending" growing up in provincial Vendée, briefly encountering handsome teenaged Antoine Langelot, then entering an increasingly unhappy marriage to worldly--and rather officiously masculine--schoolteacher Armand Texier. Victorine bears Armand two children, but dreams of a different, more exotic life. And when Antoine reenters hers and importunes her to travel with him to employment opportunities in Indochina, she vacillates nervously, then, in 1899, leaves her family and joins him. Texier shapes Victorine's Indochina adventure as a series of disillusionments: Antoine's repeated business failures, his slow fall into an expatriate culture absorbed in the pursuit of luxury and the consolations of opium, the "message" implicit in a text she uses to study native languages ("The Tale of Kieu," a narrative poem about a woman who gave up everything to be with her lover), and Victorine's own burgeoning guilt and unhappiness. The close comes with her sorrowful (though resolute) parting from Antoine and her return to Vendée, and Armand. Echoes of bothMadame Bovaryand Kate Chopin'sThe Awakeningsuffuse a nevertheless inventive and artfully composed delineation of a beguiling and complicated woman's arduous journey toward self-understanding. A subtly textured fourth novel: Texier's best yet." --Kirkus Reviews(February 1, 2004) "Texier based this mesmerizing novel on the family legends surrounding her great-grandmother, Victorine, who left her husband for a year in 1899. At 16, Victorine was the youngest schoolteacher in all of France, but her father's dreams for her are dashed when she meets Armand Texier and becomes pregnant at 17. The couple marries hastily and settles into a life in Vendée with their two children. But Victorine is never completely satisfied, and when handsome Antoine, a man she loved as a girl, reenters her life, he ignites a deep passion in Victorine. When he tells her he is going to Indochina, he asks her to go with him. She does, and she travels to a world where she is able to reinvent herself. But Victorine has never been a woman to fall easily into any one role, and she finds herself as out of place in Indochina as she thought she was in Vendée. With lush, vivid description, Texier brings to life both the world around Victorine and the woman herself." --Kristine Huntley,Booklist(February 15, 2004) "Elegant as a pair of satin gloves,Victorineis the enchanting narrative of a unique woman. By reimagining the missing years in a family mystery, Texier has created a captivating novel of desire, longing, and betrayal. This is a seductive work of art." --Diana Abu-Jaber, author of Crescent "A lovely and original novel that transported me to another time and place. A tantalizing mix of fact and fantasy: the author inhabits her great-grandmother's soul." --Laura Shaine Cunningham, author ofSleeping ArrangmentsandDreams of Rescue "Catherine Texier'sVictorineis a provocative yet generous meditation on th
Copyright Date
2004
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2003-054860
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
21
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