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SUITE FOR BARBARA LODEN
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| By: |
Nathalie Leger, Natasha Lehrer (Trans), Cecile Menon (Trans) |
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Paperback |
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£12.99 |
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£9.48 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0993009301 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780993009303 |
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| Publisher: |
LES FUGITIVES |
| Pub. date: |
30 March, 2015 |
| Pages: |
128 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Wanda (1970) a cult film classic, exerts a fascination for artists from Isabelle Huppert to Rachel Kushner to Kate Zambreno. For acclaimed French writer Nathalie Leger, the mysteries of Wanda launched an obsessive quest across continents, into archives, and through mining towns of Pennsylvania, all to get closer to the film and its maker. |
| Synopsis: |
First published in France in 2012 to critical and popular acclaim, this is the first book about the remarkable American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. Loden's 1970 film Wanda is a masterpiece of early cinema verite, an anti-Bonnie-and-Clyde road movie about a young woman, adrift in rust-belt Pennsylvania in the early 1960s, who embarks on a crime spree with a small-time crook.How to paint a life, describe a personality? Inspired by the film, a researcher seeks to piece together a portrait of its creator. In her soul-searching homage to the former pin-up girl famously married to Hollywood giant Elia Kazan, the biographer's evocative powers are put to the test. New insights into Loden's sketchy biography remain scarce and the words of Marguerite Duras, Georges Perec, Jean-Luc Godard, Sylvia Plath, Kate Chopin, Herman Melville, Samuel Beckett and W.G. Sebald come to the narrator's rescue. As remembered scenes from Wanda alternate with the droll journal of a flailing research project, personal memories surface, and with them, uncomfortable insights into the inner life of a singular woman who is also, somehow, every woman. |
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UK |
| Imprint: |
Les Fugitives |
| Prizes: |
Winner of The Scott Moncrieff Prize 2016
Winner of Prix du Livre Inter 2012
Runner-up for Albertine Prize 2017
Short-listed for The French-American Foundation Translation Prize 2017 |
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