Free day

Title
  1. Free day / Inès Cagnati ; translated from the french and with an introduction by Liesl Schillinger.
Published by
  1. New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
Author
  1. Cagnati, Inès, 1937-2007

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Additional authors
  1. Schillinger, Liesl
Description
  1. xiii, 143 pages; 21 cm.
Summary
  1. "A haunting and powerful portrait of a young French girl, and her desire to escape the world in which she is born, without losing her identity. In the marshy, misty countryside of southwestern France, fourteen-year-old Galla rides her battered bicycle from the private Catholic high school she attends on scholarship to the rocky, barren farm where her family lives. It's a journey she makes every two weeks, forty miles round trip, traveling between opposite poles of ambition and guilt, school and home. Galla's loving, overwhelmed, incompetent mother doesn't want her to go to school; she wants her to stay at home, where Galla can look after her neglected little sisters, defuse her father's brutal rages, and help with the chores. What does this dutiful daughter owe her family, and what does she owe herself? In Inès Cagnati's haunting, emotionally and visually powerful novel Free Day, which won France's Prix Roger Nimier in 1973, Galla makes an extra journey on a frigid winter Saturday to surprise her mother. As she anticipates their reunion, stopping often to pry caked, gelid mud off her bicycle wheels, she mentally retraces the crooked path of her family's past and the more recent map of her school life as a poor but proud student. Galla's rich, dense interior monologue blends with the landscape around her, building a powerful portrait of a girl who yearns to liberate herself from the circumstances that confine her, without losing their ties to her heart"--
Series statement
  1. NYRB classics
Uniform title
  1. Jour de congé. English
  2. New York Review Books classics.
Alternative title
  1. Jour de congé.
Subject
  1. Country life
  2. High school girls
  3. Dysfunctional families
  4. France
  5. Country life > France > Fiction
  6. FICTION / Contemporary Women
  7. High school girls > France > Fiction
  8. FICTION / Coming of Age
  9. Abusive men > Fiction
  10. Domestic fiction
  11. Fiction
  12. Families
  13. Dysfunctional families > Fiction
  14. Women > France > Social conditions > Fiction
  15. Bildungsromans
  16. FICTION / Family Life
  17. Women > Social conditions
  18. Psychological fiction
Genre/Form
  1. Psychological fiction.
  2. Domestic fiction.
  3. Bildungsromans.
  4. Fiction.
Call number
  1. JFD 20-2743
Author
  1. Cagnati, Inès, 1937-2007, author.
Title
  1. Free day / Inès Cagnati ; translated from the french and with an introduction by Liesl Schillinger.
Publisher
  1. New York : New York Review Books, [2019]
Type of content
  1. text
Type of medium
  1. unmediated
Type of carrier
  1. volume
Series
  1. NYRB classics
  2. New York Review Books classics.
Added author
  1. Schillinger, Liesl, translator, writer of introduction.
Other form:
  1. Online version: Cagnati, Inès, 1937-2007, author. Free day New York : New York Review Books, [2019] 9781681373591 (DLC) 2019018898
LCCN
  1. 2019017595
ISBN
  1. 9781681373584 (softcover)
  2. 1681373580
  3. 9781681373591 (electronic)
Research call number
  1. JFD 20-2743
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