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Adèle
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"Fascinating . . . Adèle has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die trying--and detonated it." --The New York Times Book Review
"[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --Entertainment Weekly
From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris, for fans of the movie Babygirl
She wants only one thing: to be wanted.
Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex.
Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.
"[A] fierce, uncanny thunderbolt of a book." --Entertainment Weekly
From the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny--one of the 10 Best Books of the Year of The New York Times Book Review--her prizewinning novel about a sex-addicted woman in Paris, for fans of the movie Babygirl
She wants only one thing: to be wanted.
Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But underneath the surface, she is bored--and consumed by an insatiable need for sex.
Driven less by pleasure than compulsion, Adèle organizes her day around her extramarital affairs, arriving late to work and lying to her husband about where she's been, until she becomes ensnared in a trap of her own making. Suspenseful, erotic, and electrically charged, Adèle is a captivating exploration of addiction, sexuality, and one woman's quest to feel alive.
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Lauren
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“This book just really wasn’t for me. I honestly spent most of the read feeling pretty confused about what the point was meant to be. I never once found myself excited to pick it back up, but I’m the type of person who has to finish a book once I’ve started it.
I could tell there were interesting ideas in there, especially around Adele’s character, her compulsions, and her inner world, but the overall story just didn’t land for me at all. It felt like it had no real direction, and by the end I didn’t feel like there was much of a conclusion either.
Maybe I just missed the mark with what the book was trying to do, but personally it didn’t make much sense to me and I came away feeling genuinely confused.”
Jolina Lee
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“The comment of the author at the end of the book, stating that she left the psychological explanation of Adèle‘s condition out on purpose, cleared up a lot of questions that initially came up while reading. This story really just felt like experiencing an obsessive compulsion first-hand, not really knowing why it’s there in the first place, just like the protagonist herself. I also really enjoyed Richard‘s character unfolding in the second half of the story; I’m not sure if I know a lot of other stories who deal with a savior complex in a way I felt able to relate to.”
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About Leila Slimani
Leila Slimani is the bestselling author of The Perfect Nanny, one of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year, for which she became the first Moroccan woman to win France's most prestigious literary prize, the Goncourt. She won the La Mamounia Prize for Adèle. A journalist and frequent commentator on women's and human rights, she is French president Emmanuel Macron's personal representative for the promotion of the French language and culture and was ranked #2 on Vanity Fair France's annual list of the Fifty Most Influential French People in the World. Born in Rabat, Morocco, in 1981, she now lives in Paris with her French husband and their two young children.
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