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Sweet Days of Discipline by Fleur Jaeggy (2019, Trade Paperback)

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Sweet Days of Discipline, Paperback by Jaeggy, Fleur; Parks, Tim (TRN), ISBN 0811229033, ISBN-13 9780811229036, Brand New, Free shipping in the US Sweet Days of Discipline

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PublisherNew Directions Publishing Corporation

ISBN-100811229033

ISBN-139780811229036

eBay Product ID (ePID)21038740515

Product Key Features

Book TitleSweet Days of Discipline

Number of Pages112 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicContemporary Women, Lgbt / Lesbian, General, Coming of Age

Publication Year2019

GenreFiction

AuthorFleur Jaeggy

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight4.6 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

Dewey Edition23

ReviewsClocking in at a sharp 101 pages, you're finished before you can lodge a complaint, its contents going down as smoothly as a martini served in an ice-cold glass., Jaeggy's astute compression of narrative detail is at once serene and startling. Beneath a placid, opalescent surface lurks a threat of violence that may or may not be realized, but which contributes to the profound impression that people and their lives are unpredictable, coursing with icy, barren wildness., Dipped in the blue ink of adolescence, Fleur Jaeggy's pen is an engraver's needle depicting roots, twigs, and branches of the tree of madness: Extraordinary prose. Reading time is approximately four hours. Remembering time, as for its author: the rest of one's life., Jaeggy seems to have crushed a glass in her palm and tweezed out a few shards for the page. Her prose is indeed extraordinary...it is also frightening., Reading Jaeggy is not unlike diving naked and headlong into a bramble of black rosebushes, so intrigued you are by their beauty: it's a swift, prickly undertaking, and you emerge the other end bloodied all over., Set in a boarding school in Switzerland and narrated by teenage Eve, this taut novel depicts the tensions and erotics of young friendship in a claustrophobic and controlling closed environment. Eve's knowing voice unsettles us to reconstruct our own angle on existence when we were fourteen., Violence dredged from the depths of consciousness is the most darkly glittering seam running through this world. Exhilarating.

Dewey Decimal853.914

SynopsisOn the heels of I Am the Brother of XX and These Possible Lives, here is Jaeggy's fabulously witchy first book in English, with a new Peter Mendelsund cover, A novel about obsessive love and madness set in postwar Switzerland, Fleur Jaeggy's eerily beautiful novel begins innocently enough: "At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell." But there is nothing innocent here. With the off-handed remorselessness of a young Eve, the narrator describes her potentially lethal designs to win the affections of Fréderique, the apparently perfect new girl. In Tim Parks' consummate translation (with its "spare, haunting quality of a prose poem," TLS), Sweet Days of Discipline is a peerless, terrifying, and gorgeous work.

LC Classification NumberPQ4870.A4