Format:
Book
Author:
Slimani, Leïla, 1981- author.
Title:
Adèle / Leila Slimani ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.
Publisher, Date:
[New York, New York] : Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2019]
©2019
Description:
216, 9 pages ; 20 cm
Summary:
Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex. Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making.
Subjects:
Journalists -- France -- Fiction.
Sex addiction -- Fiction.
Sex addicts -- Fiction.
Women -- Sexual behavior -- Fiction.
Adultery -- Fiction.
Married women -- Fiction.
Paris (France) -- Fiction.
Genre:
Psychological fiction.
Other Author:
Taylor, Sam, 1970- translator.
Other Title:
Dans le jardin de l'ogre. English
Notes:
"Originally published in French as Dans le jardin de l'ogre by Éditions Gallimard, Paris. English-language edition published simultaneously in the United States of America in Penguin Books and in the United Kingdom by Faber & Faber Ltd."--Title page verso.
Includes a reading group guide.
LCCN:
2018039406
ISBN:
9780143132189 (paperback)
0143132180 (paperback)
Other Number:
1080866829
System Availability:
11
Current Holds:
0
Control Number:
3662548
Call Number:
843/.92
Course Reserves:
0
# System items in:
11