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Respire/Breathe

Respire/Breathe

by Anne - Sophie Brasme (Author)

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    Paperback 2003

    $3.42
Synopsis

'Barely out of childhood, I had already commited the irreparable.' Beautifully and simply written with an astonishing maturity, this first novel narrates the story of nineteen-year-old Charlene Boher. Charlene recounts her past from her prison cell, a past which had begun banally enough - a great friendship between herself and Sarah. Charlene, a solitary, unpopular, tortured and breathless adolescent had been 'rescued' by Sarah and they'd developed an intense friendship. However, when Charlene falls in love with Maxime, the jealous Sarah begins to test and provoke her, to humiliate her in public and reproach her persistently - until she can take it no longer, with disastrous and shocking consequences. This is a very frank and convincing account of a possessive, ambiguous and abusive friendship.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 12 Jun 2003
ISBN 10: 0297829564
ISBN 13: 9780297829560
Book Overview: Published in France in autumn 2003 to massive press coverage and excellent reviews, over 30,000 copies sold in less than 3 months. 18 offers for film rights - multi-million pound deal concluded with Miramax. Youth of author clearly a talking point but strength of writing should be focus.

Media Reviews
Authors keep getting younger. Anne-Sophie Brasme is 18 and still at school in Metz. Her novel sold more than 30,000 copies in France in less than three months and is powerfully translated into English to show the stunning trajectory of an abusive and obsessive friendship. Told from a prison cell, a teenage murderess recounts her miserable and misfit adolescence spent in solitary introversion. As her body germinates, her mind still hates herself until she forms a friendship with a classmate who is like no other and who gives and then destroys a sense of worth. A mesmerising, novella-length debut about dependency, emotional manipulation, disgust of self and others, all the more remarkable because of Brasme's age.
Author Bio
Anne-Sophie was born in 1984 and was still at school when she wrote BREATHE, her first novel. She lives in Metz.