Violette's Embrace

by Michele Zackheim

A novel based on the turbulent life of Violette Leduc, an obscure French writer who became a lesbian, a member of the existentialist circle of Sartre and Camus, and a black-marketeer during World War II

213 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

For many years I was a visual artist exhibiting in museum and galleries, both in the united States and Europe. Over time, random words began to appear on my canvases . . . then poems . . . then elaborate fragments of narratives. I began to think more about writing and less about the visual world. Finally, I simply wrote myself off the canvas and onto the lavender quadrille pages of a bright orange notebook. This, my first book, was Violette's Embrace, published by Riverhead/Penguin.

Reviews

[Jessica · Rating 2 out of 5]

Did I even finish it?
I'm not sure. I found it very disappointing.
Much made of little connection; much more about the author than about LeDuc.