Forever Valley (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803289512)

This mesmerizing novel is about a sixteen-year-old girl who lives in a rectory and works in a dance hall. Gradually she embarks upon a "personal project" she digs pits in the rectory garden and "looks for the dead." Her story, which has brevity and magical intensity of a fairy tale, is marked equally by tragedy and dark humor.

Forever Valley is one of three novels that are the first works to appear in English by Marie Redonnet, one of France's most original new authors (the other novels are Hel Splendid and Rose Mellie Rose, both also available from the University of Nebraska Press). Translator Jordan Stump notes that these books "unmistakably fit together, although they have neither characters nor setting in common." In all three novels, Redonnet has said, "it is the women who fight, who seek, who create."

Author: Marie Redonnet
ISBN-10: 0803289510
ISBN-13: 9780803289512
Publisher: Bison Books
Language: English
Published: 09/01/1994
Pages: 117
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.46h x 4.75w x 0.37d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 10/15/1994 pg. 403
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/1994 pg. 1157