Contributor

Marie Darrieussecq

Contributor

Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq was born in 1969 in Bayonne, France. She is a graduate of the Ecole Normale Superieure in Paris. Her debut novel, Pig Tales (1996), was published in 34 countries and became the most popular first novel in France since the 1950s. Her second novel, My Phantom Husband (1998), became an immediate bestseller....

Her third novel, Breathing Underwater, prompted Francis Gilbert in The Times to declare that "there are very few writers who may have changed my perception of the world, but Darrieussecq is one of them." She is also the author of A Brief Stay with the Living (2003) and White (2006).

From “As You Were Saying”

By Marie Darrieussecq & Rick Moody

The tracheotomy left him hoarse for a long time but in the end he got his normal voice back.

Translated from French by Esther Allen

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Marie Darrieussecq

Marie Darrieussecq

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From “As You Were Saying”