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Paperback Hotel Splendid Book

ISBN: 0803289537

ISBN13: 9780803289536

Hotel Splendid

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These three short novels are the first works to appear in English by a remarkable contemporary French author, Marie Redonnet. Born in Paris in 1947, Redonnet taught for a number of years in a suburban lyc e before deciding to pursue a writing career full time. Since her volume of poetry Le Mort & Cie appeared in 1985, she has published four novels, a novella, numerous short stories, and three dramatic works. In translator Jordan Stump's words, these...

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an astounding prose poem of a novel -- a masterpiece!

This small novel is a piece of magical, verbal music. Repetitions -- literal, imagistic, melodic -- wind about the reader like silk rope. It's a one-sit read -- a beautiful, shocking ride into the world of these women and our world in both the largest and the smallest senses. And French to the hilt. Everyone should experience this book.
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