Name: Scaffolding - Hardcover
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Scaffolding - Hardcover

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by Lauren Elkin (Author)

A Best Book of the Year: Vanity Fair, The Boston Globe, The Week, The New Statesman
A Must-Read: The New Yorker, The New York Times Book Review, The Guardian, Marie Claire, Frieze, Literary Hub, The Millions, BBC, Our Culture, i news

"Sexy, intelligent . . . biting, too." --Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair

The debut novel by the acclaimed author of Flâneuse and Art Monsters, Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding is a story of Paris, desire, love, psychoanalysis, and the turbulent affairs of two couples across time.

Paris, 2019. An apartment in Belleville. Following a miscarriage and a breakdown, Anna, a psychoanalyst, ﬁnds herself unable to return to work. Instead, she obsesses over a kitchen renovation and befriends a new neighbor--a younger woman called Clémentine who has just moved into the building and is part of a radical feminist collective.

Paris, 1972. The same apartment in Belleville. Florence and Henry are renovating their kitchen. She is ﬁnishing her degree in psychology, dropping into feminist activities, and devotedly attending the groundbreaking, infamous seminars held by the renowned analyst Jacques Lacan. She is hoping to conceive their ﬁrst child, though Henry isn't sure he's ready for fatherhood.

Two couples, ﬁfty years apart, face the challenges of marriage, ﬁdelity, and pregnancy. They inhabit this same small space in separate but similar times--times charged with political upheaval and intellectual controversy. A novel in the key of Éric Rohmer, Lauren Elkin's Scaffolding is about the way our homes collect and hold our memories and our stories, about the bonds we create and the diﬃculty of ever fully severing them, about the ways all the people we've loved live on in us.

Author Biography

Lauren Elkin is the author of Art Monsters and Flâneuse, a New York Times Book Review notable book and a ﬁnalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. Her essays have appeared in The New York Times, Le Monde, Frieze, and The Times Literary Supplement, among other publications. A native New Yorker, Elkin lived in Paris for twenty years and now resides in London.

Number of Pages: 400

Dimensions: 1.3 x 8.3 x 5.7 IN

Publication Date: September 17, 2024

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