All the Way

‘Another astonishing work by Darrieussecq. All the Way is a stunning achievement.’ – M. J. Hyland
‘A dreamy and daring narrative.’ * Courier Mail and Daily Telegraph *
‘Explicit, funny and unsentimental, All the Way captures what it’s like to be under-age and out of your mind with desire. Darrieussecq is a sublime writer with real insight.’ * Saturday Age and Sydney Morning Herald *
‘Darrieussecq is excellent at evoking the ever-shiftin boundaries of the adolescent world. She also poignantly depicts the complexities of parent-child relationships and their often turbulent period during adolescence.’ * Weekend Australian *
’[A] sharp, funny and honest description of a girl coming to grips with her blooming sexuality.’ * Herald Sun *
‘All the Way offers insight into the confusing world of adolescence and sexual awakening and is unsettling in its honesty.’ * Launceston Examiner *
‘Darrieussecq is not afraid to break social taboos, nor does she flinch from the utter selfishness that accompanies adolescence…sad, funny and challenging.’ * Otago Daily Times *
‘There are few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them.’ * The Times *
‘The internationally celebrated author who illuminates those parts of life other writers cannot or do not want to reach.’ * Independent *
‘Darrieussecq dissects with anatomical precision the climate of small-town France in the 1980s, with its strange mix of sexual openness and the continued prevalence of a particularly French brand of chauvinism and racism, all coloured by the disappointment of a generation that came of age in 1968, the promised revolution having faded almost completely, leaving nothing more noble than a petit bourgeois sensibility.’ * Times Literary Supplement *

Marie Darrieussecq was born in Bayonne in 1969. Her first novel, Pig Tales, was translated into thirty-five languages. She has published more than twenty books and been awarded numerous prizes. Text has published Tom Is Dead, All the Way, Men, Being Here—The Life of Paula Modersohn-Becker, Our Life in the Forest, The Baby, Crossed Lines, Sleepless, and How to Make a Woman. Darrieussecq has written art criticism and journalism, is a translator from English, and has practised as a psychoanalyst. She lives in Paris.

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