by Catherine Texier · France Loisirs · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782744130908
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«Les draps neufs» is the novel by Catherine Texier, published by France Loisirs in paperback (220 pages, in French).
After nearly twenty years of a relationship and two children together, the protagonist narrates her separation in the form of a diary: she reconstructs the couple's growing apart amid lies and half-truths and expresses the pain of losing a loved one. An intimate chronicle of grief and of the search for oneself among the remains of a shared life.
The novel was originally published in France in 1999 and belongs to the genre of literary fiction.
For readers with a command of French who are looking for intimate narrative about the end of a relationship and personal reconstruction.
Catherine Texier, novelist, journalist, and creative writing professor, was born and raised in France and now lives in New York City. She is the author of four novels, Victorine (2004), Chloé l'Atlantique (1983), Love Me Tender (1987) and Panic Blood (1990), and a memoir, Breakup (1999). She was the coeditor of the literary magazine Between C & D, is a regular contributor to The New York Times, and has written for Newsday, ELLE, Harper's Bazaar, Cosmopolitan, Marie Claire, and Nerve.com. She also edited the anthologies Between C and D: New Writing from the Lower East Side Fiction Magazine (1988) and Love is Strange: Tales of Postmodern Romance (1993), both with former spouse Joel Rose.
