Heroine Lucy Sante and the discovery of a

and the discovery of a dozen old film reels

1: The Way by Swann's is published in a new translation from the French by Lydia Davis in Penguin Classics

Part Alan Sillitoe and part William Burroughs

“An original and even occasionally hilarious book about losing ideals and finding them again… [De Graaf] deftly shows that architecture cannot be better or more pure than the flawed humans who make it

I've been thinking about it ever since

Heroine Lucy Sante and the discovery of aIn a bathtub in a rooming house in Montreal in 1980, a woman tries to imagine a new life for herself: a life after a passionate affair with a man while falling for a woman, a life that makes sense after her deep involvement in far left politics during the turbulent seventies of Quebec, a life whose form she knows can only be grasped as she speaks it. A new, revised edition of a seminal work of edgy, experimental feminism. With a foreword by Eileen