No touching
Rouf, Ketty2021
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Josephine teaches at a college in a Paris suburb. Her life is a despondent routine of Xanax tablets and Tupperware lunches in the staff room. A tedious existence punctuated by the incessant, onerous, sometimes surreal, directives from the department of education. Except that, every night Josephine undergoes a radical transformation and becomes Rose Lee, a stripper in a night club on the Champs-Elysees. There, under the spotlights, she reclaims her life, reconciles herself to her own body, and falls head over heels in love with the desire she inspires in men, the power she draws from it. Josephine's life is a mixture of glamour and greyness, a heady, dangerous seesaw between the omnipotence she feels when she's desired, and the boredom of her day job. But if she carries on playing with fire, Rose Lee may end up burning her wings.
Main title:
No touching / Ketty Rouf ; translated by Tina Kover.
Author:
Rouf, Ketty, authorKover, Tina A., translator
Imprint:
Brentwood : Europa Editions UK, 2021.
Collation:
172 pages ; 21 cm
ISBN:
9781787703162 (pbk)9781787703315 (ePub ebook)
Dewey class:
843.9'2
Local class:
FT PbkF
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
2922695