Adèle: A Novel

Author: Slimani, Leila

Color: Multicolor

Number Of Pages: 240

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"Fascinating . . . Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying--and detonated it." --The New York Times Book Review"[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --Entertainment WeeklyFrom the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--as well as Sex and Lies and In the Country of Others, her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris She wants only one thing: to be wanted. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.

Reviews:

One of O, The Oprah Magazine’s 10 Titles to Pick Up Now One of Time’s 11 New Books to Read This JanuaryOne of Entertainment Weekly’s 20 New Books to Read in JanuaryOne of amNewYork’s 8 New Novels to Read in 2019One of The Million’s Most Anticipated of 2019One of Nylon’s 50 Books You’ll Want to Read in 2019 “Bold, stylish and deeply felt.”

— The Wall Street Journal

“A slim, compelling read,  Adèle examines topics ranging from marriage and motherhood to adultery, but the overarching theme is the notion of freedom. . . . The plot of  Adèle recalls Kundera’s masterwork [ The Unbearable Lightness of Being].”

— Vanity Fair

“The feverish spark of obsession licks at the corner of nearly every page.” 

— Entertainment Weekly

“Sultry, polarizing.”

— New York, The Approval Matrix: Highbrow/Brilliant

“[A] short but weighty book about a self-destructive wife and mother caught in the throes of sex addiction.”

— New York, “6 New Paperbacks You Should Read This January”

“Sensational . . . In her novels, home and hearth are a furnace, not a haven. Families are groups in which power struggles are conducted in close quarters, and with gloves off.”

— Time

“A feminasty thriller.”

— O, The Oprah Magazine

“Engrossing . . . Bracing . . . [A] frisson of tension propels  Adèle. . . . Shattering.”

— San Francisco Chronicle

“Brave . . . A skillfully turned novel that gives us nothing we expect . . . Its clean, affectless prose may recall Camus. (A gifted stylist, Slimani can pack a sneaky wallop when she wants.) . . . Any Slimani novel is a major event.”

— The Philadelphia Inquirer

“Bracingly erotic . . . Once again Slimani unveils a story which reads us and our moral reactions as we turn its pages.”

— John Freeman, Lit Hub

“If Sally Rooney is her generation’s essential writer on sex, Slimani . . . is its most compelling writer on violence. Her prose is grotesque and vivid; indulging nothing that doesn’t need to be indulged.”

— The New Statesman

“Bracing . . . Elegantly written . . . Provocatively enigmatic.”

— The Guardian

“Thrilling . . . The tight pacing and spare style that had readers hooked to [ The Perfect Nanny] are still here. . . . Slimani is one of the few contemporary authors—along, perhaps, with Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy—writing intelligently about motherhood today.”

— The Sunday Times (U.K.)

“One of the most unusual books I’ve ever read. Get a copy if you can, and be prepared to be shaken and stirred by a feat of great writing on an intriguing subject.”

— Lorraine Candy, The Sunday Times (U.K.)

“Unsparingly lucid . . . [Written] in taut, lithe prose . . . A tender and troubling novel.”

— Financial Times

“A riveting and psychologically rich novel, its final pages particularly stirring . . . A story that will strike a chord with many women . . . Slima...

EAN: 9780143132189

Release Date: 15-01-2019

Languages: English

Item Condition: New

Binding: Paperback