La Batarde - Violette Leduc Art & Design delightful connections…its republication seems a

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

just a few months before she died

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

is Nabokovian in its accretion of strange and rich detail

and the first translated book

La Batarde - Violette Leduc Art & Design delightful connections…its republication seems aLa 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