by Claude Pujade-Renaud · Babel · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782742745487
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«Belle mère» is the novel by Claude Pujade-Renaud, published by Babel in paperback (192 pages, in French).
Eudoxie, 47, meets Armand, a widower in his sixties, through an advertisement, and marries him. War takes Armand, leaving Eudoxie with Lucien, his taciturn and surly adult son, with whom she must live. A tale of an unusual arrangement between two people who did not choose each other and a portrait of modest suburban France.
Novel awarded the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens in 1994; the original edition was published that same year and this paperback edition dates from 2003.
For readers of French fiction who appreciate portraits of women and unconventional family bonds.
Claude Pujade-Renaud was a French writer, whose first novel Le Ventriloque appeared in 1978. She subsequently published over twenty novels, short-story and poetry collections, as well as combined creative works with long-time partner Daniel Zimmermann. She won the prix Goncourt des lycéens in 1994 for Belle mère, her novel on being a stepmother, and was a recipient of the French Writer's Guild Prize for her life's work.
