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Playboy

by Debr

A life recast in fragments

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A life recast in fragments

In the first volume of Constance Debré’s autobiographical trilogy, a decision to leave marriage, legal work, and bourgeois life in Paris reshapes the narrator’s sense of identity. Short vignettes place her early relationships with women alongside encounters with her ex-husband, father, and son, bringing private change into view through family ties and the demands of a former life. The book’s scope is intimate and specific: a woman at forty-three taking up writing while reorienting her life and relationships.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in autobiographical fiction and accounts of personal reinvention.
  • Readers drawn to French literature centered on sexuality, family, and changing relationships.

Themes

Personal reinventionSexuality and identityFamily relationshipsWriting and self-definition

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Book overview

"First published in France in 2018, Playboy is the first volume of Constance Debre's renowned autobiographical trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer. The novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator's descriptions of her first female lovers--a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior--are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father, and her son."--Provided by publisher.
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