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Free day
- Title
- Free day / Inès Cagnati ; translated from the french and with an introduction by Liesl Schillinger.
- Author
- Cagnati, Inès, 1937-2007
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 20-2743 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Schillinger, Liesl
- Description
- xiii, 143 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "A haunting and powerful portrait of a young French girl, and her desire to escape the world in which she is born, without losing her identity. In the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from the private Catholic high school she attends on scholarship to the rocky, barren farm where her family lives. It's a journey she makes every two weeks, forty miles round trip, traveling between opposite poles of ambition and guilt, school and home. Galla's loving, overwhelmed, incompetent mother doesn't want her to go to school; she wants her to stay at home, where Galla can look after her neglected little sisters, defuse her father's brutal rages, and help with the chores. What does this dutiful daughter owe her family, and what does she owe herself? In Inès Cagnati's haunting, emotionally and visually powerful novel Free Day, which won France's Prix Roger Nimier in 1973, Galla makes an extra journey on a frigid winter Saturday to surprise her mother. As she anticipates their reunion, stopping often to pry caked, gelid mud off her bicycle wheels, she mentally retraces the crooked path of her family's past and the more recent map of her school life as a poor but proud student. Galla's rich, dense interior monologue blends with the landscape around her, building a powerful portrait of a girl who yearns to liberate herself from the circumstances that confine her, without losing their ties to her heart"--
- Series Statement
- NYRB classics
- Uniform Title
- Jour de congé. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Jour de congé.
- Subjects
- Country life
- High school girls
- Dysfunctional families
- France
- Country life > France > Fiction
- FICTION / Contemporary Women
- High school girls > France > Fiction
- FICTION / Coming of Age
- Abusive men > Fiction
- Domestic fiction
- Fiction
- Families
- Dysfunctional families > Fiction
- Women > France > Social conditions > Fiction
- Bildungsromans
- FICTION / Family Life
- Women > Social conditions
- Psychological fiction
- Genre/Form
- Psychological fiction.
- Domestic fiction.
- Bildungsromans.
- Fiction.
- Call Number
- JFD 20-2743
- ISBN
- 9781681373584
- 1681373580
- 9781681373591 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019017595
- OCLC
- 1077967993
- Author
- Cagnati, Inès, 1937-2007, author.
- Title
- Free day / Inès Cagnati ; translated from the french and with an introduction by Liesl Schillinger.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- NYRB classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Added Author
- Schillinger, Liesl, translator, writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Cagnati, Inès, 1937-2007, author. Free day New York : New York Review Books, [2019] 9781681373591 (DLC) 2019018898
- Research Call Number
- JFD 20-2743