Love Me Tender
$27.30
- Paperback
168 pages
- Release Date
15 November 2022
Summary
A novel of lesbian identity and motherhood, and the societal pressures that place them in opposition.
The daughter of an illustrious French family whose members include a former Prime Minister, a model, and a journalist, Constance Debre abandoned her marriage and legal career in 2015 to write full-time and begin a relationship with a woman. Her transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian was chronicled in her 2018 novel Playboy, praised by Virginie Despe…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781635901740 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 163590174X |
| Author: | Holly James, Constance Debré |
| Publisher: | Semiotext (E) |
| Imprint: | Semiotext |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 168 |
| Release Date: | 15 November 2022 |
| Weight: | 198g |
| Dimensions: | 12mm x 138mm x 203mm |
| Series: | Semiotext(e) / Native Agents |
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Critics Review
”[Debre]’s new book, Love Me Tender (Semiotext(e), $17.95), admirably translated by Holly James, continues to trace her psychic and sexual evolution, while also describing the agonizing impact of her decisions on her relationship with her son, Paul.”
—Claire Messud, Harper’s Magazine
“Debré’s guiding principle is the most valuable lesson that she has to share. Radically changing your life is worth nothing if you don’t fully commit to the performance, put everything at stake, and accept that, no matter how hard it gets, you can’t return to the safety of the way things were—not if your sense of self depends on it.”
—Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker
“Debré takes a nasty story about misogyny and child custody and turns it into something more interesting, a story about freedom. […] Why does a mother cease to be a human being? The author’s honesty is as terrifying as it is deeply exciting.”
—Jessica Ferri, Los Angeles Times
“Lingering behind the scrim of Debré’s stripped prose is the destabilizing suggestion that it is nearly impossible to know who we are, primarily because the accretion of symbolic identities and our lust for consumer detritus barricade us from ourselves.”
—Alissa Bennett, Artforum
“Beneath Love Me Tender’s wise-cracks—‘You gain ten years when you become gay. Everyone knows that’—there is a serious argument being made: that French society has rendered motherhood and lesbianism incompatible.”
—Alice Blackhurst, New Left Review
Holly James
Constance Debre left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. She has written three other novels, Play boy (Prix de la Coupole 2018), Un peu l , beaucoup ailleurs (winner of the 2005 Prix Contrepoint), and Manuel pratique de l’ideal Abecedaire de survie.
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