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J. -K Huysmans
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The Vatard Sisters (Dedalus European Classics) |
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English |
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Paperback |
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286 |
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2013-03-31 |
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1907650539 |
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Dedalus Limited |
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0.57 pounds |
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1.25 x 5.0 x 7.0 inches |
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"The Vatard Sisters brought Huysmans to the notice of the public and revealed him as a man who could paint word-pictures which put earlier practitioners like Gautier and Edmond de Goncourt in the shade…The novel is a story of two working-class sisters, but the main protagonist is Paris, suburban Paris, the Paris of railway stations, cheap restaurants and café-concerts…and the passages that describe the music-halls and crowds of the Avenue de Maine and the Boulevard Saint Michel, or the railway yard seen from the back window of the sisters' bedroom, have a visual immediacy…a kind of energy, a force of personality, which are utterly unusual in Huysmans' work…"
Anita Brookner in The Genius of the Future
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