{"product_id":"playboy-paperback","title":"Playboy - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eConstance Debre\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eHolly James\u003c\/b\u003e (Translator)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe prequel to \u003ci\u003eLove Me Tender\u003c\/i\u003e, narrating Debr?'s transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\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\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in France in 2018, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume of Constance Debr?'s renowned debut 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Debr? recently told \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e \"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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking at the world through fresh eyes, the narrator of \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting her way toward her own liberation, Debr? chronicles the process that made her one of the most brilliant, important French writers today.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstance Debré left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. Her other novels, \u003ci\u003eLove Me Tender\u003c\/i\u003e (published by Semiotext(e) in 2022), \u003ci\u003eUn peu là, beaucoup ailleurs\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2005 Prix Contrepoint), and \u003ci\u003eManuel pratique de l'idéal Abécédaire de survie\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 09, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42683068842047,"sku":"9781635902105","price":21.54,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/96f326dc50635982662c05db8160ca69.webp?v=1764962482","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/playboy-paperback","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}