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A cage in search of a bird / Florence Noiville ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
- Title
- A cage in search of a bird / Florence Noiville ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.
- Author
- Noiville, Florence
- Publication
- London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2016.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2714.O48 I4513 2016 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Fagan, Teresa Lavender
- Description
- 183 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- Laura Wilmote is a television journalist living in Paris. Her life couldn t be better a stimulating job, a loving boyfriend, interesting friends until her phone rings in the middle of one night. It is C., an old school friend whom Laura recently helped find a job at the same television station: My phone rang. I knew right away it was you. Thus begins the story of C. s unrelenting, obsessive, incurable love/hatred of Laura. She is convinced that Laura shares her love, but cannot or will not admit it. C. begins to dress as Laura, to make her friends and family her own, and even succeeds in working alongside Laura on the unique program that is Laura s signature achievement. The obsession escalates, yet is artfully hidden. It is Laura who is perceived as the aggressor at work, Laura who appears unwell, Laura who is losing it. Even Laura s adoring boyfriend begins to question her. Laura seeks the counsel of a psychiatrist who diagnoses C. with De Clerambault syndrome she is convinced that Laura is in love with her. And worse, the syndrome can only end in one of two ways: the death of the patient, or that of the object of the obsession.
- Series Statement
- The French List
- Uniform Title
- French list
- Subject
- Erotomania > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Novels
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 9780857423757
- 0857423754
- OCLC
- 944087336
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library