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Our Share of Time
Yves Navarre
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Description for Our Share of Time
Paperback. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 15. Weight in Grams: 454.
When it happens you don't expect it. You don't expect anything anymore. You lose your head for just a second and someone walks into your life, turns it upside down, tenderly, brutally, making a place for himself. Even before anything has happened it's already too late. You can't tell who is choosing whom, when, how, why. You only know these things later when everything is over and each person holds the other accountable for what has gone on. These opening lines from Our Share of Time begin a story concerned with the impossibility of sustaining love, or even understanding how ... Read more
When it happens you don't expect it. You don't expect anything anymore. You lose your head for just a second and someone walks into your life, turns it upside down, tenderly, brutally, making a place for himself. Even before anything has happened it's already too late. You can't tell who is choosing whom, when, how, why. You only know these things later when everything is over and each person holds the other accountable for what has gone on. These opening lines from Our Share of Time begin a story concerned with the impossibility of sustaining love, or even understanding how ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9780916583286
SKU
9780916583286
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About Yves Navarre
Yves Navarre's (1940-1994) first book, Lady Black, was published in 1971. During a prolific career, he published over a dozen novels, including Cronus's Children, The Zoological Garden, and Our Share of Time, which is published by Dalkey Archive Press. In 1980, he won France's most esteemed literary award, the Prix Goncourt. In addition to several of Jacques Roubaud s books, ... Read more
Reviews for Our Share of Time
A universally appealing tale about the difficulty of finding and keeping relationships.
Newsday Yves Navarre is a lively and thought-provoking writer, and Our Share of Time, the third of his novels to appear in English, deserves a large readership in America.
Washington Times
Newsday Yves Navarre is a lively and thought-provoking writer, and Our Share of Time, the third of his novels to appear in English, deserves a large readership in America.
Washington Times