Poum and Alexandre

Poum and Alexandre

by Catherine de Saint Phalle
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 01/10/2016

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This is the story of two flawed eccentrics. Everything they do subverts their firm intention of keeping up appearances. They meet just after the war in liberated Paris but they cannot quite free themselves from the many strings attached to them the old aunts, the sisters, the cousins, the nuns and the ominous concierges who dog their footsteps.Alexandre is a banker and a Resistant and lives in a world of numbers and Roman emperors. Poum resides in the Odyssey and in her bed, hiding from the mysterious disapproval of their relatives, for they both seem to persist in some irreparable faux pas which has them wading through a lifetime pickle. Their daughter, Catherine, would like to help but she seems to be part of the problem. This is no ordinary childhood, and Catherine de Saint Phalle's acceptance of her parents, despite their flaws, shines through, propelling us head first into their strange, yet beautiful, Parisian world.Poum and Alexandre is a searingly honest, humorous and moving elegy to family and place, and a meditation on the ways they ultimately define us.'A memoir of a very gifted writer’s unusual parents, woven from myth, history, and family lore. This is a disturbing, bittersweet and poetic rendering of the longing for love and understanding. More than personal, it conjures past worlds, their horrors and their triumphs, as if they were wholly present to us.' Tracy Ryan, author of Unearthed, Claustrophobia and Sweet

ISBN:
9780994395795
9780994395795
Category:
Memoirs
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
01-10-2016
Language:
English
Publisher:
Transit Lounge
Catherine de Saint Phalle

Catherine de Saint Phalle was born in London, spent her first years in Sussex, England and lived in Paris and the South of France. She moved to Melbourne in 2003 and now lives between Brunswick and a garden in Daylesford. She has had six books published in France and this is her fourth book with Transit Lounge.

English was her mother tongue and when she became an Australian citizen it all came together — she found that the language of her childhood made her heart beat in Australian-English.

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