The Book Of Proper Names: A Novel-new,New

The Book Of Proper Names: A Novel-new,New

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The Book Of Proper Names Is Set In Contemporary Paris, Its Main Character An Orphan Named Plectrude. Before The Childs Birth Her Nineteenyearold Mother Shoots And Kills Her Nineteenyearold (And Somewhat Feckless) Father Because She Hates The Names Hes Devised For Their Childshe Fears They Will Doom Their Unborn Child To Mediocrity. The Mother Confesses Openly To What She Has Done, And Why. She Is Arrested And Thrown Into Prison, Where She Gives Birth To The Child, Names Her, To Everyones Bafflement, Plectrudean Obscure Saint, And An Albatross Of A Nameand Then Hangs Herself.The Novel Therefore Begins On The Borderline Between Tragedy And Absurdity, But As Plectrude Growsraised By A Loving, Indulgent, And Eccentric Auntit Becomes A Deeply Moving And Simultaneously Chilling Portrait Of Girlhood. Plectrudes Great Gift Turns Out To Be For Ballet, And She Throws Herself Into Dance As If Her Life Depended Upon It. Few Novels Have Shown Us The Implacable And Unforgiving World Of Ballet With More Intuitive Sympathy, Yet Also With A Keeneyed Assessment Of The True Price Of Artistic Perfection.. Inevitably, The Doom Hovering Over Plectrudes Life From Birth Returns To Haunt Her, And In The End She Learns To Survive In The Only Way She Knows Howby Committing An Act Of Deadly Selfpreservation Her Mother Would Have Perhaps Understood Best.The Book Of Proper Names Is Vintage Amelie Nothombalternatively Mordant And Poignant, A Portrait Of Adolescence That Is Fierce And Funny At The Same Time. There Is Nothing Mediocre Either About Nothomb Nor Her Creations

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