Catherine Texier

I had this sat on my shelf so long before getting round to reading, and I think it came from a remainder bookshop back in the 90s. So I was a bit surprised to see some of the authors in it are actually much more well known now than they would have been back then - so you get David Foster Wallace with an author bio saying he's 'working on something long' (gotta be Infinite Jest right?), and A M Homes before she's published May We be Forgiven etc.

I really dislike the cover, and so was a bit sorry to see it was by Art Spiegelman.

Anyway its a collection of quirky and disturbing short stories, all vaguely about love, romance and sex. Some are better than others, and I'm finding it hard to remember them all in detail now, but I'm glad I finally got around to reading it. Its odd to read something that was probably edgy and modern at time of publishing but now seems a little dated.… (meer)

Was sie getan hatte, darüber sprach man nicht … Catherine Texiers Urgroßmutter lebte in einem kleinen Dorf in der Vendée, war verheiratet und hatte drei Kinder. Kurz vor Beginn des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts verschwand sie für eineinhalb Jahre. Was ist in dieser Zeit geschehen? Ist sie wirklich mit ihrer Jugendliebe durchgebrannt und nach Saigon gefahren? Inspiriert von dem gut gehüteten Familiengeheimnis, hat Catherine Texier einen hinreißenden Roman über eine selbstbewusste, unberechenbare Frau geschrieben.… (meer)