
Portrait of the Writer as a Domesticated Animal
2007
First Published
3.52
Average Rating
230
Number of Pages
What happens when a writer throws herself into the service of one of the richest businessmen in the world? Will all the luxuries and corruption of the business world turn her into a complacent drone?
Avg Rating
3.52
Number of Ratings
71
5 STARS
21%
4 STARS
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3 STARS
30%
2 STARS
15%
1 STARS
3%
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Author

Lydie Salvayre
Author · 10 books
Lydie Salvayre is a French writer. Born in the south of France to Republican refugees from the Spanish Civil War, she went on to study medicine in Toulouse and continues to work as a practicing psychiatrist. She has been awarded both the Prix Hermes and the Prix Novembre for her work. She won the Prix Goncourt 2014 for her novel Pas Pleurer.