{"product_id":"9781635902105","title":"Playboy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe prequel to Love Me Tender, narrating Debré’s transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eI see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new. I tell myself there are so many things that are possible.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eFirst published in France in 2018, Playboy is the first volume of Constance Debré’s renowned autobiographical trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator’s descriptions of her first female lovers—a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior—are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father, and her son. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAs Debré recently told Granta: “It was a bit like Saint Augustine and his conversion. In the same week, I had sex with a girl and I had the feeling that I could write. I had this incredible feeling that I could catch things, that life was there to be caught.” \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLooking at the world through fresh eyes, the narrator of Playboy questions everything that once lay beneath the surface of her well-managed life. Laconic, aggressive, and radically truthful, she examines gender and marriage, selfishness and sacrifice, money and family, even the privilege inherent in her downward mobility. \u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWriting her way toward her own liberation, Debré chronicles the process that made her one of the most brilliant, important French writers today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePaperback | 176 pages | 5.38\" x 8.00\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Constance Debre","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45782657728744,"sku":"9781635902105x","price":24.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0386\/5896\/5549\/files\/m_983c78e9-cf23-4422-b70c-bc83c1ca4247.jpg?v=1712726519","url":"https:\/\/typebooks.live\/products\/9781635902105","provider":"TYPE Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}