Violette's Embrace

by Michele Zackheim

Book Overview

A stunning first novel about the life of France's greatest unknown writer--Violette Leduc--this work offers an eclectic fusion of fact and fiction, recounting the events of Leduc's life both as artful... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1573220361
• ISBN13: 9781573220361
• Release Date: August 1996
• Publisher: Riverhead Books
• Length: 213 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.6"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher

Customer Reviews

Giving birth to one's self

I discovered this novel after discovering Violette Leduc. I adore this book for its fleshing out of Leduc's life. It gives a lush and warm sense of her life and her version of madness, as well as the narrator's investigation into her own Jewish heritage. In some places, Zackheim's writing mirrored Leduc's. There's so little written about Leduc, which is such a tragedy.