The Easy Life

✍ Scribed by Marguerite Duras

• Book ID: 112047205
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 633 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781635578522

✦ Synopsis

For the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras'sfoundational masterpiece about a young woman's existentialbreakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.
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_The Easy Life is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of whatever ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea. But there she finds herself unraveling, uncertain of what is inside her. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand by day while psychologically dissolving in her hotel room by night, she soon reaches the peak of her inner crisis and must grapple with whether and how she can take hold of her own existence.
An extraordinary...