I kept reading this relatively short novel wondering where it was going - and the answer was nowhere! What bothered me a little was the language though: It's not only that it is not lyrical, there even is a mechanical, über-obvious and sometimes bland quality to it, which you can certainly see as fitting if you consider the topic of the book, but it does not make for a captivating sound. As Eloise's world implodes with the strain of being responsible for all around her, someone is bound to be overlooked. A quick read but an exhilarating one written in pared back prose: transgressive, subversive, likely to divide readers, and yes, enigmatic and provocative rather than transparent. Her life is preoccupied with dozens of affairs and one-night stands and then the two halves of her life collide and it becomes impossible for her to continue as she has been doing.

Fascinating, candid, informative, intimate, insightful, emotional, deftly crafted, intensely personal, Twist: An American Girl is one of those life stories that will linger in the mind and memory long after the book has been finished and set back upon the shelf. Of special relevance to readers with an interest in LGBTQ biographies and memoirs…Very strongly recommended for community and academic library American Biography/Memoir collections.The structure of the book is exciting, though nothing wildly out of the ordinary happens to Àdele, the reader is always aware of her instability and impulsivity and so kept on the edge of their seat. Adèle appears to have the perfect life: She is a successful journalist in Paris who lives in a beautiful apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But though Adèle seeks power through sex, she’s attracted to powerful men and she relies on them to overpower her. Adele Bertei began playing music in Cleveland with Pere Ubu’s legendary Peter Laughner, and as an original member of the Contortions, produced by Brian Eno on No New York.

This is a story about a young Parisian woman married to her surgeon husband with whom she has a young son. Adele probably sounds like it might be a titillating book (in a vicariously pleasurable, morally backward way) but the sex is actually really unerotic; just ugly and sad while still being uncomfortably graphic. Este é, acima de tudo, um livro sobre dor, sobre solidão, sobre uma mulher que não se basta a si mesma, que é metade.Essbaum's protagonist just irritated me; Adèle, by contrast, manages to be both more loathsome and more sympathetic. Tahar Ben Jelloun, reviewing it for one of the French papers, pointed out that most Moroccan novelists produce a first book about the maghrebain experience, whereas this is a purely French novel.

ir bet kuriuo atveju - man atrodo, kad šitoj srity niekas, net Haneke, nepralenkia, negali pralenkt Elfriede Jelinek. A week after finishing Adèle, I had to reread parts of it to jog my memory, whereas I still remember Essbaum's Anna with relative sharpness three years after reading the book. While "My Trip to Adele" carries valuable messages and boasts an intriguing concept, it falls short in execution. Adèle is addicted to sex, with more or less any man who isn’t her husband and whom she doesn’t know too well: as soon as any hint of intimacy or routine announces itself in her liaisons, she cuts them off. The world’s hardest cynic bumps into the last of the great romantics but their pasts dictate their futures can never be simple.The wider world hovers at the edges: Adèle’s brief enthusiasm for her work leads to an immersion in the revolutions of north Africa, before journalism too becomes part of “the whole idiotic charade”; towards the end of the novel comes a reference to her Algerian father’s sense of dislocation from his roots and her mother’s indifference to it. As in both of those books, there is a comeuppance, a reckoning that implies the lack of value accorded to female lives and sexuality, and the irrepressible urge to control them.