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The Vatard Sisters

Author: J.-K. Huysmans

Translator: Brendan King   Cover design: Marie Lane  

"A powerful and outstanding work." Gustave Flaubert

"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade…The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts…and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters’ bedroom, have a visual immediacy…a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work…"
Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future

RRP: £9.99

No. of pages: 272

Publication date: 31.08.2012

ISBN numbers:
Paperback
978 1 907650 53 6
Ebook
978 1 909232 10 5

Rights:
World English language in this translation.