{"product_id":"the-beginners-9780811230315","title":"The Beginners","description":"Anna has been living happily for twenty years with loving, sturdy, outgoing Guillaume when she suddenly (truly at first sight) falls in love with Thomas. Intelligent and handsome, but apparently scarred by a terrible early emotional wound, he reminds Anna of \u003cem\u003eJude the Obscure\u003c\/em\u003e. Adrift and lovelorn, she tries unsuccessfully to fend off her attraction, torn between the two men. \"How strange it is to leave someone you love for someone you love. You cross a footbridge that has no name, that's not named in any poem. No, nowhere is a name given to this bridge, and that is why Anna found it so difficult to cross.\"\u003cbr\u003e Anne Serre offers here, in her third book in English, her most direct novel to date. \u003cem\u003eThe Beginners\u003c\/em\u003e is unpredictable, sensual, exhilarating, oddly moral, perverse, absurd--and unforgettable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eSerre, Anne:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - The author of fourteen novels and short story books, \u003cstrong\u003eAnne Serre\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in 1960. Her first novel, \u003cem\u003eLes Gouvernantes\u003c\/em\u003e, was published in 1992, and praised by Michel Crépu in La Croix for its \"remarkable economy of style.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eHutchinson, Mark:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eMark Hutchinson\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in London in 1957 and lives in Paris. Among his many translations are René Char's \u003cem\u003eHypnos: Notes from the French Resistance\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Inventors and Other Poems\u003c\/em\u003e.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50615326474514,"sku":"9780811230315","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e34f1f18-0a55-401c-bc70-ec166e37c83c.jpg?v=1732482283","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-beginners-9780811230315","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}