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Anne-Marie the Beauty
  • Published: 17 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781644210512
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $29.99

Anne-Marie the Beauty

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17 Aug 2021
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Another thought-provoking master class in how we perform life by the award-winning novelist and playwright Yasmina Reza.

"I was bored with my husband," says Anne-Marie, the irrepressible voice of Anne-Marie la Beauté, "but you know, boredom is part of love." Mostly she is speaking here of her more famous friend and colleague, the French actress Giselle Fayolle, in whose shadow she has spent her career. "My life was a near miss," she adds, before explaining that she enunciated well because "I loved to say the words." A very short novel with the power and resonance of a much longer one, Anne-Marie the Beauty is a profound and moving act of remembrance, a clear-eyed assessment of the hard-edged nature of fame, a meditation on aging--and a wonderfully observant and comic exploration of human foibles. In short, another thought-provoking master class in how we perform life by the peerless Yasmina Reza.
  • Published: 17 August 2021
  • ISBN: 9781644210512
  • Imprint: Seven Stories Press
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 64
  • RRP: $29.99
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About the authors

Yasmina Reza

YASMIANA REZA is a novelist and playwright. Her plays Conversations After a Burial, The Unexpected Man, Art, Life x 3, and God of Carnage have all been multi-award-winning critical and popular international successes, translated into more than thirty-five languages. Art was the first non-English language play to win the American Tony Award. God of Carnage, which also won a Tony Award, was adapted for film in 2012 by Roman Polanski. Her novels include Anne-Marie the Beauty (Seven Stories, 2021), Babylon (Seven Stories, 2018), which won the Prix Renaudot and was shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt, Desolation, and Adam Haberberg. She lives in Paris.
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Alison L. Strayer

Alison L. Strayer is a Canadian writer and translator. She won the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, and her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Literature and for Translation, the Grand Prix du livre de Montreal, the Prix littéraire France-Québec, and the Man Booker International Prize. She lives in Paris.
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Alison Strayer

ALISON L. STRAYER is a Canadian writer and translator. Her work has been shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Literature (for Jardin et prairie, a novel, 2000) and for Translation (Mavis Gallant's A Fairly Good Time, with G. Letarte, 2010), the Grand Prix Littéraire de la Ville de Montréal and the Prix France-Quebec. She lives in Paris.
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Praise for Anne-Marie the Beauty

"Reza is fascinated by what almost always remains unsaid: What happens if we dare to speak our minds? Babylon is darker and more mysterious than the plays... [a] haunting little tale."--Erica Wagner in The New York Times Book Review about Babylon

"Reza is fascinated by what almost always remains unsaid: What happens if we dare to speak our minds? Babylon is darker and more mysterious than the plays... [a] haunting little tale."--Erica Wagner in The New York Times Book Review about Babylon

"Reza is fascinated by what almost always remains unsaid: What happens if we dare to speak our minds? Babylon is darker and more mysterious than the plays... [a] haunting little tale."--Erica Wagner in The New York Times Book Review about Babylon