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Breathing Underwater

Breathing Underwater

by Marie Darrieussecq (Author)

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    Paperback 2002

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Synopsis

A young woman walks out on her life, taking only her young daughter. They stop at a small French town where they make contacts, with the owner of a flat, with a swimming instructor who is teaching the child, and with a strangely hesitant private investigator, hired by the woman's deserted husband.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 128
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 22 Apr 2002
ISBN 10: 0571209149
ISBN 13: 9780571209149
Book Overview: Breathing Underwater by Marie Darrieussecq: 'There are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them.' (Francis Gilbert, The Times)

Media Reviews
'There are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them'. Francis Gilbert, The Times 'This is an extraordinary novel by a stunningly talented writer... To give shape to disassociation and substance to emptiness - to hover above the void - takes considerable courage and commitment'. Alex Clark, Guardian
Author Bio
Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her debut novel, Pig Tales (1996), was published in 34 countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. Her second novel, My Phantom Husband (1998), became an immediate bestseller. Her third novel, Breathing Underwater, prompted Francis Gilbert in The Times to declare that 'there are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them'. Her fourth novel, A Brief Stay with the Living, is published in June 2003.