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02553aam a2200385 i 4500 001 9BEB412EFD1211E892ED091697128E48 003 SILO 005 20181211010139 008 180518s2018 nyu 000 f eng 010 $a 2018021518 020 $a 081122807X 020 $a 9780811228077 035 $a (OCoLC)1023525968 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d ORX $d OCLCQ $d BLP $d DAD $d OCLCO $d IH9 $d CKE $d IGA $d NZAUC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d IOU $d SILO 041 1 $a eng $h fre 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PQ2679.E67335 $b G6813 2018 082 00 $a 843/.914 $2 23 100 1 $a Serre, Anne, $d 1960- $e author. 240 10 $a Gouvernantes. $l English 245 14 $a The governesses / $c Anne Serre ; translated from the French by Mark Hutchinson. 264 1 $a New York : $b New Directions Publishing Corporation, $c 2018. 300 $a 108 pages ; $c 19 cm 500 $a "A New Directions Paperback Original"--Title page. 500 $a "Originally published in French as Les gouvernantes by EÌditions Champ Vallon"--Title page verso. 520 $a In a large country house shut off from the world by a gated garden, three young governesses responsible for the education of a group of little boys are preparing a party. The governesses, however, seem to spend more time running around in a state of frenzied desire than attending to the children's education. One of their main activities is lying in wait for any passing stranger, and then throwing themselves on him like drunken Maenads. The rest of the time they drift about in a kind of sated, melancholy calm, spied upon by an old man in the house opposite, who watches their goings-on through a telescope. As they hang paper lanterns and prepare for the ball in their own honor, and in honor of the little boys rolling hoops on the lawn, much is mysterious: one reviewer wrote of the book's "deceptively simple words and phrasing, the transparency of which works like a mirror reflecting back on the reader."Written with the elegance of old French fables, the dark sensuality of Djuna Barnes and the subtle comedy of Robert Walser, this semi-deranged erotic fairy tale introduces American readers to the marvelous Anne Serre. 650 0 $a Governesses $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Hutchinson, Mark, $d 1986- $e translator. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231019014602.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230907011957.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20190109010321.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20181211010550.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9BEB412EFD1211E892ED091697128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search