by Dorothy Allison · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782714436177
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«Retour à Cayro» is Dorothy Allison's novel, published by Belfond in paperback (446 pages, in French).
Delia Byrd fled a violent husband and her two daughters to follow a rock musician; years later, a star and drowning in alcohol, she returns to her hometown, Cayro (Georgia), with Cissy, the daughter born from that relationship, to try to win back Amanda and Dede. The austere, religious community does not make it easy for her.
The original title, Cavedweller, was published in 1998 and the work won the Lambda Literary Award for lesbian fiction; the French translation is by Michèle Valencia.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction, Southern novels and LGBT fiction, with an interest in family dramas, guilt and redemption.
Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
