A01=Nicole Brossard
activism
Author_Nicole Brossard
books for girls
canadian
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coming of age
english translation
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equal rights
erotic
exprimental literature
feminism
feminist movement
french canadian
LGBT
postmodern
quebecois
strong female character
woman author
women's liberation
Product details
- ISBN 9781552451724
- Weight: 354g
- Dimensions: 127 x 203mm
- Publication Date: 04 Apr 2002
- Publisher: Coach House Books
- Publication City/Country: CA
- Product Form: Paperback
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First published in 1987, Nicole Brossard's classic novel returns to Coach House in a new edition. A seminal text in Canadian and feminist literature, Mauve Desert is a must-read for readers and writers alike. This is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, fifteen-year-old Melanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover, Lorna, in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maudes Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book -- Mauve, the horizon -- is Laures's eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original. Nicole Brossard's writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic. Her language drifts and swells like sand dunes in a desert, cresting and accumulating into a landscape that shifts like wind and words; she translates the practice of translation, the pulse of desire.
