Anne Finger. (2018). A Woman, In Bed. Cinco Puntos Press.

Anne Finger. 2018. A Woman, In Bed. Cinco Puntos Press.

Anne Finger, A Woman, In Bed. Cinco Puntos Press, 2018.

Anne Finger. A Woman, In Bed. Cinco Puntos Press, 2018.

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   • bioText: Anne Finger is a writer of fiction—both short stories and a novel—as well as of creative non-fiction. She is currently the Holtzbrinck Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Her short story collection, Call Me Ahab, winner of the Prairie Schooner Award, was published in the Fall of 2009 by the University of Nebraska Press. She has had four other books published. Her short fiction has appeared in The Southern Review, Kenyon Review, Discourse, and Ploughshares. She has taught creative writing at the university level as well as teaching workshops in the community. She has also been awarded residencies at MacDowell, Yaddo, Djerassi, Centrum and Hedgebrook. She lives in Oakland, California.
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Paris, 20th century, WWI to WWII and beyond. Simone abandons her body to lust, leaves her husband for Jacques, sleeps with strangers. But she is never satisfied. It is only when she is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, when she appears to be most broken in her body, that she finally finds the tender, fulfilling love she has been seeking.|

Paris, 20th century, WWI to WWII and beyond. Simone abandons her body to lust, leaves her husband for Jacques, sleeps with strangers. But she is never satisfied. It is only when she is diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, when she appears to be most broken in her body, that she finally finds the tender, fulfilling love she has been seeking.

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     February 1, 2018
     A woman comes of age--and then ages--against the backdrop of a changing France.When we meet Simone Clermont (nee Vidal, soon to be Melville), she has returned to her mother's guesthouse, now a mother herself, leaving her engineer husband behind in Istanbul in order to protect their baby from the fevers that are going around in Turkey after the First World War. She is restless and unfulfilled, though not without appetites, and when Jacques Melville and his old university friend arrive at the Vidal doorstep seeking a room for the night, the course of her future is set in motion. What begins as an affair--both of them are married--gives way to an all-consuming passion and then a bohemian life together in Paris, Simone as the mistress, Jacques slow to disentangle himself completely from his wife. But even when they do marry, Jacques remains removed and unknowable; they are simultaneously deeply intimate and total strangers to each other. They are devoted but not faithful, parts of themselves and their lives untouchable by the other. Simone will be active in the French Resistance and witness the unspeakable; Jacques will take a mistress; Simone will find comfort in sex with other, also-unknowable men. But the men--and not just one-offs, but the ones who matter, Jacques and Simone's late-in-life lover, Pierre, and even her beloved son, Marcel--are peripheral to the novel's primary relationship, which is between Simone and herself. Finger's writing about the female body--not the experience of looking at it but the experience of having one--is visceral. And it is that body--lush, pregnant, starving, aging, ailing--that is the driving force of Simone's life. The rich poetry of Finger's (Bone Truth, 1994, etc.) language sometimes veers toward the overwrought--occasionally, it feels like the novel may buckle under its own weight--but the book's originality, and its boldness, makes it impossible to turn away.Ambitious and demanding; one of a kind.

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     March 1, 2018
     Between world wars on the C�te d'Azur, young mother Simone meets a handsome stranger, a boarder at her family's inn, just when her husband's absence has become unbearable. A veteran of the Great War, a writer and academic, and a married father, Jacques thrills Simone with his superior intelligence and studied detachment. After Simone divorces and flees to Paris with her two children, securing her fate as Jacques' mistress and, eventually, his wife requires patience. Moving through Simone's activities working for the French Resistance in WWII and in many erotic affairs, the novel spans decades. By the time of the 1968 uprisings, Simone's body has, it seems, begun to betray her. Initially written off as nervousness brought on by her son's forced service in the war, Parkinson's disease unpredictably takes hold of her movements and mind. Constantly foreshadowing events to come, Finger's (Call Me Ahab, 2009) story of a twentieth-century woman's lifelong journey toward owning all of herself, including her illness, will appeal to readers of character-focused, highly detailed historical fiction.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2018, American Library Association.)

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