Monique Escapes

byÉdouard Louis, John Lambert (Translator)

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Monique Escapes opens with a telephone call between Édouard Louis and his mother, who reveals that her partner is an alcoholic and emotionally abusive. Her sadness and fear distresses Édouard, who is in Athens, although his vacant apartment immediately offers her somewhere to stay - and an escape route.

Together, mother and son plot her next steps in what becomes a meditation on the price of liberty, the challenges involved in change, and the necessity of remaking their own relationship even as they work to free her from cycles of abuse. It is a work of remarkable emotional directness and a fascinating reflection on the interplay between life and art - and ultimately the story of an older women's reinvention as she starts a new life.
Louis relentlessly chronicles the type of lives that are lived by so many but rendered by so few...[with] monomaniacal focus on the psychological and physical violence inflicted on the working classes by the structures of neoliberalism… One of the most important, politically vital and morally bracing writers of his generation.
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About Édouard Louis

Édouard Louis is the author of The End of Eddy, History of Violence, Who Killed My Father and A Woman's Battles and Transformations, and the editor of a book on the social scientist Pierre Bourdieu. His work has been translated into more than thirty languages, making him one of the most celebrated writers of his generation worldwide.
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  • Imprint: Harvill Secker
  • ISBN: 9781787305045
  • Length: 144 pages
  • Price: £14.99
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