{"product_id":"playboy-9781635902105","title":"Playboy","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe prequel to \u003ci\u003eLove Me Tender\u003c\/i\u003e, narrating Debr?'s transformation from affluent career woman to broke single lesbian and writer.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eI see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new. I tell myself there are so many things that are possible.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished in France in 2018, \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e is the first volume of Constance Debr?'s renowned debut trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator's descriptions of her first female lovers--a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior--are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father, and her son. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs Debr? recently told \u003ci\u003eGranta\u003c\/i\u003e \"It was a bit like Saint Augustine and his conversion. In the same week, I had sex with a girl and I had the feeling that I could write. I had this incredible feeling that I could catch things, that life was there to be caught.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLooking at the world through fresh eyes, the narrator of \u003ci\u003ePlayboy\u003c\/i\u003e questions everything that once lay beneath the surface of her well-managed life. Laconic, aggressive, and radically truthful, she examines gender and marriage, selfishness and sacrifice, money and family, even the privilege inherent in her downward mobility. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWriting her way toward her own liberation, Debr? chronicles the process that made her one of the most brilliant, important French writers today.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eConstance Debré left her career as a lawyer to become a writer. Her other novels, \u003ci\u003eLove Me Tender\u003c\/i\u003e (published by Semiotext(e) in 2022), \u003ci\u003eUn peu là, beaucoup ailleurs\u003c\/i\u003e (winner of the 2005 Prix Contrepoint), and \u003ci\u003eManuel pratique de l'idéal Abécédaire de survie\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Semiotext(e)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50581659713810,"sku":"9781635902105","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_ebfea2a9-dffa-4f8b-9724-513ae90db46e.jpg?v=1732016603","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/playboy-9781635902105","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}