Playboy

Autori

• Constance Debré

Parametri

• Francia
• LGBTQ+
• Narrativa

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When she kisses a woman for the first time, the protagonist of "Playboy" is hesitant and unsure. However, with each subsequent kiss, she increasingly embraces her new life. After decades of marriage and raising her son, she leaves behind the facade of family life. With every piece of furniture she discards and every shirt she throws away, she sheds the layers of her heterosexual conditioning. She embarks on relationships with women who could not be more different from one another, learns to love in new ways, and reevaluates her upbringing in a prestigious French family as the child of two impoverished drug addicts. She reflects on her career as a criminal defense attorney and her marriage to her ex-husband, ultimately discovering a new physicality: the body as a means of escaping societal norms and as a medium for sensations, allowing her to both give and receive pleasure. With linguistic power and disarming honesty, Constance Debré challenges taboos surrounding money, marriage, sex, desire, and domesticity.

Lingua: Inglese

Pubblicato: 2024

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