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Trysting

Trysting

by Emmanuelle Pagano (Author)

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    Paperback 2016

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Synopsis

It s as though you had to know the password for our relationship . . .
What is love? Why do some people make our hearts flutter, while others leave us cold? A seductive blend of Maggie Nelson and Marguerite Duras, Trysting seizes romance s slippery truths by letting us glimpse nearly 300 beguiling relationships: scenes between all genders and sexualities, including first dates, infidelities, dependencies, missed connections, bitter memories, and first passions. Proving that the erotic knows no bounds, almost anything can be a means of attraction: from amnesia and throat-clearing to sign language, earplugs, back hair, arthritis, PVC, and showers. Combining aphorisms, anecdotes, and adventures, Trysting is a tour de force that gives a new perspective on a question as old as humanity.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 176
 Publisher: And Other Stories
Published: 16 Nov 2016
ISBN 10: 1908276762
ISBN 13: 9781908276766

Media Reviews
'Trysting reveals what only literature can: the basic irrationality, the arbitrary enchantment, but also the residual grace within the feeling of love. A multitude of anonymous male and female characters show us in what ways we are seduced by each other: a scent, a movement, a way of being, a way of making love.' Alexandre Gefen, Magazine litteraire ---------- 'Though she insists on brevity, Pagano never abandons complexity and holds fast to the animal sensuality that forms the bedrock of every couple's relationship.' Clementine Goldszal, Les Inrockuptibles ---------- 'It's familiar but never banal. Having nothing of the a performance, and everything of a sharing of confidences, it is all of an incredible delicacy.' Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle
Author Bio
Emmanuelle Pagano has published over a dozen works of fiction, which are increasingly translated into German, Hungarian, Italian and Spanish. She has won the EU Prize for Literature among other prizes and lives in the Ardeche region with her family. ---------- Sophie Lewis is a London-born writer, editor and translator from French and Portuguese. Recent translations include Therese and Isabelle by Violette Leduc (Salammbo), The Man Who Walked Through Walls by Marcel Ayme (Pushkin), The Earth Turned Upside Down by Jules Verne (Hesperus) and Heloise is Bald by Emilie de Turckheim (Jonathan Cape). She is Senior Editor at And Other Stories press, and lives in London. ---------- Jennifer Higgins is a translator, teacher and linguist. Her research has focused on how literary translation may act as a vehicle for influence and innovation between cultures. She has taught translation to undergraduates at Oxford and Cambridge universities, and Italian to A-level students. Previous translations include Le talisman de la Villette (Strangled in Paris) by Claude Izner, for Gallic Books.