Constance Debré & Alice Blackhurst: Playboy

<p>In her latest semi-autobiographical novel <a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/playboy-constance-debre" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Playboy</em> </a>(Tuskar Rock, translated by Holly James), leading French writer Constance Debré describes how a woman, at the age of 43, abandons her apartment, her marriage and her successful legal career to lead a new life as an out lesbian and a writer. In a series of short, sharp vignettes the narrator describes a series of meetings with lovers, with her father and with her son and ex-husband, exploding heteronormative assumptions about what it means to be queer in a straight world. Debré was joined in conversation about her work by writer and critic Alice Blackhurst.</p><br><p>Get <em>Playboy</em>: <a href="https://lrb.me/debrepod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/debrepod</a></p><p>Find more events at the Bookshop: <a href="https://lrb.me/eventspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/eventspod</a></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>

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