La Batarde - Violette Leduc Art & Design and a shoemaker whose knowledge

and a shoemaker whose knowledge of the world has been constricted to the view from the window of his cellar workroom

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delightful connections…its republication seems a small miracle"--Madelaine Lucas

this new edition has been substantially revised with a greater focus on global outsider art

is Nabokovian in its accretion of strange and rich detail

La Batarde - Violette Leduc Art & Design and a shoemaker whose knowledgeLa Btarde by Violette Leduc, translated by Derek Coltman ISBN 9781628974577 638 page paperback from Dalkey Archive *** An obsessive and revealing self portrait of a remarkable woman humiliated by the circumstances of her birth and by her physical appearance, La Btarde relates Violette Leducs long search for her own identity through a series of agonizing and passionate love affairs with both men and women. When first published, La Btarde earned