We Always Treat Women Too Well - Softcover

Raymond Queneau

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1847497128 ISBN 13: 9781847497123

Publisher: Alma Classics, 2017

Synopsis

Published originally as the purported French translation of a novel by fictional Irish writer Sally Mara, We Always Treat Women Too Well is set in Dublin during the 1916 Easter Rising and tells the story of the siege of a small post office by a group of rebels, who discover to their embarrassment that a female postal clerk, Gertie Girdle, is still in the lavatory some time after they have shot or expelled the rest of the staff. The events that follow are not for prudish readers, forming a scintillating, linguistically delightful and hilarious narrative. By far Queneau’s bawdiest work, We Always Treat Women Too Well contains all of its author’s hallmarks: wit, stylistic innovation and formal playfulness – expertly rendered into English by Barbara Wright’s classic translation.

About this title

About the Author:

Raymond Queneau (1903–76) was a poet, novelist, editor, scholar and mathematician. He is best remembered for Exercises in Style and Zazie in the Metro.

Review:

Endowed with Queneau's cerebral prankishness, electric pace and cut-on-the-bias poetry. -- John Updike

About this edition

• Publisher: Alma Classics
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1847497128
• ISBN 13: 9781847497123
• Binding: Paperback