Description: With the depth of insight and pitiless compassion we have come to expect from the author of "Suite Francaise," Nemirovsky shows the soul of a desperate woman obsessed with her lost youth in a dramatic tale of murder and passion in 1930's France.
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Praise for Irene Nemirovsky and Jezebel:
"Engrossing. . . . A fascinating portrait of paranoid self-absorption."--Financial Times "Fast-paced and highly dramatic, Jezebel offers a fascinating glimpse into an inter-war world of privilege, wealth and Darwinian social combat."
--New Statesman "Nemirovsky wrote, for all to read at last, some of the greatest, most humane and inclusive fiction that conflict has produced."
--The New York Times Book Review "Nemirovsky's scope is like that of Tolstoy: She sees the fullness of humanity and its tenuous arrangements and manages to put them together with a tone that is affectionate, patient, and relentlessly honest."
--O, The Oprah Magazine "Extraordinary. . . . Nemirovsky achieves her penetrating insights with Flaubertian objectivity."
--The Washington Post Book World "Brilliant. . . . [Nemirovsky wrote] with supreme lucidity [and] expressed with great emotional precision her understanding of the country that betrayed her."
--The Nation "Transcendent, astonishing. . . . Like Anne Frank, Irene Nemirovsky was unaware of neither her circumstance nor the growing probability that she might not survive. And still, she writes to us."
--The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette