Nelly Arcan

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  • Bibliography:
    5 Books
  • First Book:
    December 2004
  • Latest Book:
    June 2015
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Books in Order: 5 titles

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  • Breakneck

    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...

  • Burqa of Skin

    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...

  • Hysteric

    "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 ...

  • Exit

    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...

  • Whore

    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....



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Nelly Arcan has published 5 books.

Nelly Arcan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Breakneck, was published in June 2015.

The first book by Nelly Arcan, Whore, was published in December 2004.

No. Nelly Arcan does not write books in series.
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