How to Make a Woman
$31.37
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
Rose tries to appeal to Solange. ‘You and I are alike,’ she says.‘We might have been alike when we were little, but the truth is that we’re not at all the same.’
Rose, a psychotherapist, and Solange, an actress, are very different, one diligent and loyal, the other rebellious and self-centred, but they have been best friends forever, despite their contrasting social backgrounds. In How to Make a Woman, we follow the young women’s experiences of adolescence, love, sex, work an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923058552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192305855X |
| Author: | Marie Darrieussecq, Penny Hueston |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 234mm x 155mm |
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Critics Review
‘It’s impossible to stop turning these pages…profoundly original.’
* Libération *‘Darrieussecq’s prose is immediate, lively and unforced, a tour de force.’
* Le Figaro littéraire *‘Shows us the price women pay to become what is expected of them.’
* Swiss Broadcasting Corporation *‘At once intelligent, insightful, mischievous and tender.’
* Albertine *About The Author
Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here: The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, Sleepless and How to Make a Woman. Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.
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