| We Always Treat Women Too Well Contributor(s): Queneau, Raymond (Author), Updike, John (Introduction by), Wright, Barbara (Translator) |
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ISBN: 159017030X ISBN-13: 9781590170304 Publisher: New York Review of Books OUR PRICE: $16.16 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2003 Annotation: Set in Dublin during the 1916 rebellion, this novel tells of a beauty trapped in a post office seized by rebels. This tale celebrates the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pure pleasure. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Satire - Fiction | Political |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2002011446 |
| Series: New York Review Books Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.47" H x 5.04" W x 7.98" (0.44 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: We Always Treat Women Too Well was first published as a purported work of pulp fiction by one Sally Mara, but this novel by Raymond Queneau is a further manifestation of his sly, provocative, wonderfully wayward genius. Set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter rebellion, it tells of a nubile beauty who finds herself trapped in the central post office when it is seized by a group of rebels. But Gertie Girdle is no common pushover, and she quickly devises a coolly lascivious strategy by which, in very short order, she saves the day for king and country. Queneau's wickedly funny send-up of cheap smut--his response to a popular bodice-ripper of the 1940s--exposes the link between sexual fantasy and actual domination while celebrating the imagination's power to transmute crude sensationalism into pleasure pure and simple. |