by Paula Fox · Editions Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070789306
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«Le dieu des cauchemars» is the novel by Paula Fox, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (224 pages, in French).
In 1941, Helen Bynum leaves home to settle in the French Quarter of New Orleans, where she reunites with her aunt, an actress marked by excess. Alongside a group of bohemian intellectuals, Helen experiences desire, love, friendship and their disappointments, while the city wraps everything in a sensual and suffocating mystery.
The novel was originally published in English as «The God of Nightmares» in 1990. The French translation is by Marie-Hélène Dumas and includes a foreword by Rosellen Brown.
Recommended for readers of historical and coming-of-age fiction, with a dense urban atmosphere and bohemian characters.
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.
