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DEATH VALLEY de Melissa Broder

A comic novel about grief that becomes a story of survival in the California desert, by the highly-acclaimed author of So Sad Today, Milk Fed, and The Pisces.

DEATH VALLEY: A Novel
by Melissa Broder
Scribner, Fall 2023
(via The Gernert Company)

In DEATH VALLEY, an unnamed woman arrives in the California desert seeking respite. Holding herself at bay and temporarily deserting her own life seems preferable to being filled by the anticipatory grief chasing her — both for a father attempting to recover from a near-fatal accident and a husband whose chronic illness is worsening. What the desert provides, however, is not inner peace but a path: a receptionist-recommended nearby hike. On this desert trail, the narrator encounters a towering cactus whose size and shape mean it should not exist in California. Yet the cactus is there. It is wounded. Its gaping injury beckons like a familiar door. So, she enters it. What this woman finds inside this mystical succulent is enough to make her believe her load can lighten. When she returns to the trail, however, the cactus is gone and in seeking it, she suddenly is more lost than ever before. Whether she can survive, and be reunited with all she found to live for while inside her cactus is up to what she is able to seek within herself. With no phone battery left to tell her where she is, whether her father is still alive, or whether her husband will be waiting if she returns, what’s written on her heart alone is her only map out.

Melissa Broder is the author of the novels Milk Fed and The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today, and five poetry collections, including Superdoom: Selected Poems (Summer 2021) and Last Sext. Broder has written for The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York Magazine‘s The Cut.

SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems de Melissa Broder

Featuring a new introduction from the author, SUPERDOOM brings together the best of Broder’s three cult out-of-print poetry collections―When You Say One Thing but Mean Your Mother, Meat Heart, and Scarecrone―as well as the best of her fourth collection, Last Sext.

SUPERDOOM: Selected Poems
by Melissa Broder
Tin House Books, August 2021

Embracing the sacred and the profane, often simultaneously, Broder gazes into the abyss and at the human body, with humor and heartbreak, lust and terror. Broder’s language is entirely her own, marked both by brutal strangeness and raw intimacy. At turns essayistic and surreal, bouncing between the grotesque and the transcendent, SUPERDOOM is a must-have for longtime fans and the perfect introduction to one of our most brilliant and original poets.

Melissa Broder is the author of the novel The Pisces, the essay collection So Sad Today and four poetry collections, including Last Sext. Her poetry has appeared in POETRY, The Iowa Review, Tin House, Guernica, and she is the winner of a Pushcart Prize for poetry. She has written for The New York Times, Elle.com, VICE, Vogue Italia, and New York Magazine’s The Cut. She lives in Los Angeles.

Claire Foy qui interprète la reine Elisabeth II dans la série télévisée « The Crown » tiendra le rôle principal dans l’adaptation de THE PISCES de Melissa Broder

Lucy est une thésarde en panne d’inspiration qui s’éprend d’un homme-sirène. A travers leur idylle étrange et sensuelle, l’histoire explore la définition de l’amour et les limites entre plaisir et possession, fantasmes et réalité.

L’auteure Melissa Broder et la réalisatrice Gillian Robespierre ont écrit ensemble le scénario du film. (Lire l’article de Deadline]

Publié en 2018 par Hogarth Press aux États-Unis, THE PISCES paraîtra en traduction française au printemps prochain aux Éditions Christian Bourgois, qui publieront aussi le prochain roman de l’auteure, Milk Fed (Scribner, février 2021).

La première sélection du 2018 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize annoncée

Cinq romans parmi nos représentations ont été sélectionnés :

« Asymmetry » de Lisa Halliday (Simon & Schuster – droits cédés à Gallimard)

« Confessions of the Fox » by Jordy Rosenberg (One World – droits disponibles)

« Girls Burn Brighter » by Shobha Rao (Flatiron Books – droits disponibles)

« Inappropriation » by Lexi Freiman (Ecco – droits disponibles)

« The Pisces » by Melissa Broder (Hogarth – droits disponibles)

« Self-Portrait with Boy » by Rachel Lyon (Scribner – droits cédés aux Escales)

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Le gagnant sera annoncé le 11 décembre prochain !