by Paula Fox · Editions Joëlle Losfeld · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070787289
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«Le dieu des cauchemars» is the novel by Paula Fox, published by Editions Joëlle Losfeld in paperback (256 pages, in French).
In 1941, Helen Bynum settles in the French Quarter of New Orleans with her aunt, an actress marked by alcohol. Among bohemians and intellectuals she discovers love, desire and friendship, in a sensual and stifling city. The novel ironizes on the appearances of the petty bourgeoisie and the hypocrisies of postwar America.
The novel was originally published as «The God of Nightmares» in 1990. This edition belongs to the Arcanes collection. Translation by Marie-Hélène Dumas, with a foreword by Rosellen Brown.
For readers of fiction and historical fiction, particularly those interested in period portraits of mid-20th-century America.
Paula Fox was an American author of novels for adults and children and of two memoirs. Fox won the Newbery Medal in 1974 for her novel The Slave Dancer. She also won the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 1978 and won a 1983 National Book Award in category Children's Fiction (paperback) for A Place Apart. In the mid-1990s, she enjoyed a revival as her adult fiction was championed by a new generation of American writers. In 2011, she was inducted into the New York State Writers Hall of Fame.
