{"product_id":"nathalie-sarraute-9780691197876","title":"Nathalie Sarraute","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Shortlisted for the R. Gapper Book Prize\"\u003cbr\u003e\"A major contribution to Sarraute studies. . . . [Jefferson’s] account of Sarraute’s life and career will be indispensable reading not just for scholars, but for anyone who wants to know who Nathalie Sarraute was.\"\u003cb\u003e---Toril Moi, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"[This] compelling biographical portrait leaves no doubt that Sarraute, at least for an elusive moment, cast off old encumbrances and set literature at a new angle to the world.\"\u003cb\u003e---Benjamin Balint, \u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Ann Jefferson’s scrupulous and deeply knowledgeable biography deserves to revive Sarraute’s reputation. . . . [The] story she tells illuminates a key phase in 20th-century French culture as embodied by one of its most idiosyncratic representatives.\"\u003cb\u003e---Paul Dean, \u003ci\u003eHopkins Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Nathalie Sarraute’s declaration to an interviewer in 1978 summed up a long life (she lived to 99) of passionate, unflinching commitment to writing. Ann Jefferson’s lively and engaging biography of the French novelist and dramatist shows how this commitment often set her at odds with dominant literary fashions.\"\u003cb\u003e---Michael Cronin, \u003ci\u003eIrish Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403882471767,"sku":"9780691197876","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691197876.jpg?v=1730484791","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/nathalie-sarraute-9780691197876","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}