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DESCRIPTION:Anne Berest’s first novel to appear in English\, The Postcard
 \, was a national bestseller\, a Library Journal\, NPR\, and TIME Best Boo
 k of the Year\, a Vogue Most Anticipated Book of the Year\, and a finalist
  for the Goncourt Prize in France. It was described as “stunning” by L
 eslie Camhi in The New Yorker\, as a “powerful literary work” by Julie
  Orringer in The New York Times Book Review\, and as “intimate\, profoun
 d\, essential” in ELLE magazine. With her sister Claire Berest\, she is 
 also the author of Gabriële\, a critically acclaimed\, best-selling “tr
 ue novel” based on the life of her great-grandmother Gabriële Buffet-Pi
 cabia\, wife of Francis Picabia\, Marcel Duchamp’s lover and muse\, a le
 ader of the French Resistance\, and an art critic. Berest lives in Paris w
 ith her family. \n\nCosponsored by the Boston College Fiction Days Series.
 \n\n \n\nAll Lowell Humanities Series lectures are free and open to the pu
 blic. Registration via Eventbrite is required for in-person attendance.\n\
 nThe Lowell Humanities Series is sponsored by the Lowell Institute\, Bosto
 n College's Institute for the Liberal Arts\, and the Provost's Office.
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LOCATION:Devlin Hall\, 110
SUMMARY:Fiction Days Presents Anne Berest: “Family Fictions: The Postcard
 \, Gabriële\, and Writing True Novels”
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 -family-fictions-the-postcard-gabriele-and-writing-true-novels
CATEGORIES:Lecture
CATEGORIES:Arts
CATEGORIES:Literary
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