Obsessions
- Publisher
- The Mercury Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780920544877
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
Obsessions is a stunning first novel: Jones distills the city and its craziness with the taste of Stephen King, Samuel Beckett, and Kathy Acker.
About the author
France Théoret holds a doctorate in French Studies from the University of Sherbrooke. After nineteen years of teaching, she quit to devote herself full-time to writing. Laurence, translated for The Mercury Press by Gail Scott, is Théoret’s eleventh book; previous titles include The Man Who Painted Stalin, Nous parlerons comme on écrit, Nécessairement putain, and Entre raison et déraison.