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Item Details
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SUITE FOR BARBARA LODEN
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| By: |
Nathalie Leger, Natasha Lehrer (Trans), Cecile Menon (Trans) |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£4.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
099300931X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780993009310 |
| Publisher: |
LES FUGITIVES |
| Pub. date: |
24 April, 2017 |
| Pages: |
130 |
| Translated from: |
French |
| Description: |
Published in France to critical and popular acclaim, this book is inspired by American actress and filmmaker Barbara Loden. In her 1970 film "Wanda", an anti-Bonnie-and-Clyde road movie, a young woman adrift in rust-belt Pennsylvania in the 1960s embarks on a crime spree with a small-time crook. |
| 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. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Les Fugitives |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Prix du livre Inter 2012
Winner of Scott Moncrieff Prize for Translation 2017
Runner-up for The Albertine Prize 2017
Short-listed for The French-American Foundation Prize for Translation 2017 |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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