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Being Here: The Life of Paula Modhersohn-Becker by Marie Darrieussecq
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Born in Germany in 1876, Paula Modersohn-Becker was the first female artist to paint herself not only naked but pregnant. Being Here is a moving account of the life of this ground-breaking Expressionist painter, by the acclaimed French writer Marie Darrieussecq. As her art evolves, Paula is torn between ...Show more
Crossed Lines by Marie Darrieussecq
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
When her mother offers Rose a Mediterranean cruise with her two children, she jumps at the chance to get away from her husband who drinks too much, and the renovations of their holiday house in the south. But one night the cruise ship comes upon a shipwrecked boat full of refugees, who are taken aboard. ...Show more
The Baby by Marie Darrieussecq
$27.99 AUD
Category: Psychology and Self-help
The Baby is a mother's project and a writer's project-how to reconcile these two demanding roles? What is a baby? And why are there so few of them in literature? Through notes taken in the months after her first child was born, Darrieussecq, in her characteristically ingenious style, makes observations ...Show more
Tom is Dead by Marie Darrieussecq
$29.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in the Blue Mountains and in Sydney, Tom is Dead is a suspense novel about grief. The narrator's son has been dead for ten years; he was four and a half. For the first time since that day, she spends a few minutes without thinking of him. To stop herself from forgetting, she tries to write Tom's sto ...Show more
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