How to Make a Woman
$27.99
- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
30 June 2026
Summary
Winner of the Grand Prix de l’héroïne, 2024
Darrieussecq’s new novel explores feminine identity and social pressures upon women through the story of an intense friendship.
“Rose tries to appeal to Solange. ‘You and I are alike,’ she says.‘We might have been alike when we were little, but the truth is that we’re not at all the same.’”
An electrifying double narrative about young women’s lives and desires.
Rose, a psychotherapist, and Solange, an actress, are ver…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781923058552 |
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| ISBN-10: | 192305855X |
| Author: | Marie Darrieussecq |
| Publisher: | Text Publishing |
| Imprint: | The Text Publishing Company |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 30 June 2026 |
| Weight: | 382g |
| Dimensions: | 33mm x 155mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘It’s impossible to stop turning these pages…profoundly original.’
* Libération *‘Darrieussecq’s prose is immediate, lively and unforced, a tour de force.’
* Le Figaro littéraire *‘Shows us the price women pay to become what is expected of them.’
* Swiss Broadcasting Corporation *‘At once intelligent, insightful, mischievous and tender.’
* Albertine *Marie Darrieussecq
Marie Darrieussecq (Author)
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.
Penny Hueston (Translator)
Penny Hueston’s translations from French include novels by Emmanuelle Salasc, Patrick Modiano, Sarah Cohen-Scali, and Raphael Jerusalmy. She has translated eight books by Marie Darrieussecq and has been shortlisted for the JQ-Wingate Prize, the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation, twice for the Scott Moncrief Prize, and twice for the New South Wales Premier’s Translation Prize. She was the winner of the 2020 Medal for Excellence in Translation.
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