Catherine Texier Books

Lulu, the heroine of this urgent novel, is a young French dancer who works in a downtown strip joint, the Blue Night Lounge. She inhabits a New York world where new, uncompromising styles of love, art, and experience are being born. Lulu wends her way from Julian, a junkie poet, to Henry, a wealthy, priapic Tribeca painter, to the local Puerto Rican boy, Mario. She shares her memories of a confused childhood in France with an older French woman and casts a cool yet passionately observant eye on her adopted city. Written with immediacy and raw intensity, LOVE ME TENDER is an authentic, sometimes shocking, always original slice of urban life, by an author with talent to burn.

Victorine is a dutiful housewife, respectable schoolteacher and mother in the Vendee in the 1900s, cooking the gigot for the family lunch, obeying her husband, walking the long beaches of the Atlantic with her children. But then an old childhood acquaintance turns up and her life is turned upside down forever. She falls passionately in love for the first time in her life. But her lover's work takes him back to Indochina, and Victorine abandons her life and her family to go with him. Everything is strange - the extraordinary voyage to get there, the life they lead in the sultry tropical heat, the glamour of colonial life - but life there is also a lie. Less than two years later, Victorine returns home and resumes her life: what happened?

18 Jahre lang hat Catherine Texier ihren Mann als Liebe ihres Lebens und Seelenverwandten gesehen. Doch nun liebt er sie nicht mehr. Für keinen der beiden ist es eine leichte Trennung: Immer noch besteht eine starke Anziehung, immer noch hofft die Autorin, er werde zu ihr zurückkehren. Wie sie Monate lang wütet, kämpft und liebt - zuerst, um ihre Ehe zu retten, dann, um sich aus ihr zu lösen - schildert Catherine Texier schonungslos.