Nelly Arcan

• Dec-2004
• / Literary
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A breathless (heavily autobiographical) novelistic account of the life of a young woman who sells her body for a living, Whore is a searing look at the world's oldest profession and a confessional in the tradition of Sylvia Plath....

• Jun-2011
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Translated from the French by David Scott Hamilton. Governor General's Award, Finalist. Top 10 Books of 2011, Shelf Unbound. The Globe 100: The very best of 2011. Recommended read, 49th Shelf. Book club pick, Shelf Unbound. Somewhere in Mont...

• Jun-2014
• / General Fiction
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"ReLit Long Shortlist, 2015Type Books Awards WinnerIn this daring act of self-examination and confession, the late novelist Nelly Arcan explores the tortured end of a love affair. All the wrong signals were there from the start, but still, she could ...

• Jan-2015
• / Literary
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Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. Translated by Melissa Bull. BURQA OF SKIN is a dense collection of writings channelling harrowing disenchantment and indignation. From her very first novel, PUTAIN (Seuil, 2001), Nelly Arcan shook the literary la...

• Jun-2015
• / General Fiction
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Fiction. Translated from the French by Jacob Homel. One of 49th Shelf's most anticipated fiction titles, 2015. Rose Dubois and Julie O'Brien find themselves on the roof of a Montreal apartment building on a scorching summer's day, and from that momen...