A Respectable Occupation
2017
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4.13
Average Rating
60
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‘The best early training for a writer is an unhappy childhood,’ Hemingway famously said. Julia Kerninon, one of France’s most acclaimed young novelists, tells an altogether different story in a poetic account of her pursuit. Her journey through her formative years entwines the French and Anglo-Saxon literary traditions, resulting in a vibrant ode to reading, and to writing as a space for discovery (as well as a ‘respectable occupation’), peppered with fine portraits of her disjointed yet loving family. From her native Brittany to the city of Shakespeare and Company, to a seaside café on the Atlantic coast, to Budapest and back, the author conjures a fluid, feminine answer to A Moveable Feast.
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4.13
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Author
Julia Kerninon
Author · 10 books
Julia Kerninon est née en 1987 à Nantes, où elle vit. Elle est docteure en lettres, spécialiste de littérature américaine. Elle s’est fait remarquer dès son premier roman, Buvard (2014), qui a reçu notamment le prix Françoise-Sagan. Trois livres vont suivre aux Éditions du Rouergue, dans lesquels elle affirme son talent et déroule son principal thème de prédilection, la complexité du sentiment amoureux.
