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008			240917s2008 xna 000 1 eng d
020			_a9781920882389
040			_cQCPL _erda
082			_aFic
100	1		_aRey, Catherine _eauthor
240	1	0	_aUne femme en march. _lEnglish
245	1	0	_aStepping out _c/ Catherine Rey ; translated from the French by Julie Rose
264		1	_aArtarmon, New South Wales : _bGiramondo, _c2008
300			_a214 pages
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
500			_aTranslation of: Une femme en marche. Paris : ́Editions Phébus, 2007.
520			_a"The new novel by French-Australian writer Catherine Rey begins in provincial France in the 1970's. Dressed in borrowed platform shoes and a cape, carrying her possessions in a plastic bag, the seventeen year-old Catherine throws over the traces, rejecting her family and her schooling, to move in with her lover Marco. According to the law then in force, she is under age, and the police will soon be at their door, the couple flees to Belgium. Determined to live as a writer, Catherine spends her days absorbed in her work, not realising it will be thirteen years before her first book is published. She returns to France with Marco, but after a time, her dedication, and the physical toll of his work as a labourer, cause their relationship to break down. Catherine migrates to Western Australia, where her father had been born, only to fall into an abusive relationship more constricting, and much more threatening, than the one she has just left. Written in the intense, high-energy style filled with indignation and humour which made her previous novel The Spruikers Tale such a striking addition to Australian literature, Stepping Out is a cry of rage against the oppression of family life. At the novel's centre is the author's struggle to make peace with the one she calls Madame ma mere, the mother who abandoned her at the age of three weeks old. As much the story of a woman's journey of liberation from the expectations which bind, as a writers confession of the struggles that have shaped her, Stepping Out is intended as a manifesto for the next generation."--Provided by publisher
650			_aFrench fiction _z21st century _vTranslations into English
655		7	_aDomestic fiction _2lcgft _910554
700	1		_aRose, Julie _etranslator
942			_2ddc _cBOOK
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