Name: Astragal
Rating: 4.5 (2 reviews)
ISBN: 9780811220736

Patti Smith

Albertine Sarrazin

Patsy Southgate

After Julien, a small-time criminal, rescues Anne when she escapes her prison cell, he keeps her hidden while they fall in love and fear capture.

A Novel

Astragal

'My Albertine, how I adored her! Her luminous eyes led me through the darkness of my youth. She was my guide through the nights of one hundred sleeps. And now she is yours.' At the age of twenty-one, a sad and hungry Patti Smith walked into a bookshop in Greenwich Village and decided to spend her last 99 cents on a novel that would change her life forever. The book was Astragal, by Albertine Sarrazin. Sarrazin was an enigmatic outsider who had spent time in jail and who wrote only two novels and a book of poems in her short life - she died the year before Patti found her book, at the age of twenty-nine.Astragal tells the story of Anne, a young woman who breaks her ankle in a daring escape from prison. She makes it to a highway where she's picked up by a motorcyclist, Julien, who's also on the run. As they travel through nights and days together, they fall in love and must do whatever they can to survive, living their lives always on the edge of danger. A bewitching and timeless novel of youthful rebellion and romance, this new edition of Patsy Southgate's original translation includes an introduction by Patti Smith.

Ayesha ahmed

The first time I've given French literature a try, and this story was just not for me. Maybe it's because I set the bar too high after reading Smith's review.

Karen Scarlet 

heleen de boever

Taylor Conacher

Trevor Berrett

En evig moderne klassiker – med forord af Patti Smith Anne brækker anklen, da hun springer fra fængselsmuren ud i friheden. Uden for muren møder hun Julien, sin kommende elsker og beskytter – og herfra indledes en mørk, men glødende færd gennem 1960’ernes Paris, filtreret gennem Annes rå blik på den hykleriske verden, hun og Julien befinder sig i. Albertine Sarrazin blev berømt natten over, da hun ud gav den autobiografiske Astragal i 1965, der siden hen er blevet udråbt som en klassiker. Romanen blev, ligesom andre af Sarrazins bøger, skrevet, mens hun sad i fængsel. Hun døde 29 år gammel, da karrieren var på sit højeste.

Astragal A Novel

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