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Adèle: A Novel

Adèle: A Novel

Adèle: A Novel
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Adèle: A Novel

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Penguin Books. Used - Very Good. Very Good condition. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner’s name, short gifter’s inscription or light stamp.
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  • Title Adèle: A Novel
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Publisher Penguin Books
  • Bookseller's Inventory # L17J-00472
  • ISBN 9780143132189
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine

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From the publisher

"Fascinating . . . Adle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying--and detonated it." --The New York Times Book Review

"[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --Entertainment Weekly

From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris, for fans of the movie Babygirl

She wants only one thing: to be wanted.

Adle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex.

Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.

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Citations

  • Booklist, 11/15/2018, Page 24
  • Kirkus Reviews, 11/01/2018, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/29/2018, Page 0
  • Shelf Awareness, 02/01/2019, Page 0

About the author

Leila Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt. She won the La Mamounia Prize for Adle. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France's annual list of the Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.

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