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All the Way - Marie Darrieussecq
All the Way
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A powerful, hilarious and achingly honest story about a young French girl discovering her sexuality. Solange wants to have sex. Will it be with one of the boys at school? The exchange student? The fireman she meets at the disco when she sneaks out one night? Or with Arnaud, the coolest boy she... show more
A powerful, hilarious and achingly honest story about a young French girl discovering her sexuality.

Solange wants to have sex. Will it be with one of the boys at school? The exchange student? The fireman she meets at the disco when she sneaks out one night? Or with Arnaud, the coolest boy she knows?

She’d like to see more of her father, even though he’s so embarrassing. As for her mother, she’s too depressed. Something to do with the photo of the dead boy on the mantelpiece.

Monsieur Bihotz, her neighbour who lives alone now his mother has died, is supposed to be her babysitter but Solange has other ideas. There’s really not much scope in her boring village, Clèves.

But who cares, Solange will get to do it, go all the way, whatever it takes.
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Format: paperback
ISBN: 9781921922732 (1921922737)
Publisher: Text
Pages no: 248
Edition language: English
Category:
Cultural, France
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The Way She Reads
The Way She Reads rated it
3.5 Too Much, Too Young
Some books are harder to review than others and ‘All the Way’ certainly falls in the harder category. This is the story of Solange’s sexual coming of age. It is told in three parts and while you might think that it gets easier to read about her dreams, fantasies and actions as she gets older, it d...
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