Live Fast
ABOUT
THE BOOK
Paced and structured with the inevitable suspense of a countdown, Brigitte Giraud’s tense and haunting novel follows one woman’s quest to comprehend the motorcycle accident that took the life of her partner, Claude, at age forty-one.
The narrator of LIVE FAST recounts the chain of events that led up to the accident, tracing the tiny, maddening twists of fate that might have prevented its tragic outcome. Each chapter asks the rhetorical question What if?, and begins with an image or memory, from early years in Algeria during the war through their move to the suburbs of Lyon, buying and renovating a permanent home.
Original title in French Vivre vite, published by Flammarion (2022)
ABOUT
THE TRANSLATOR Cory
Stockwell
Cory Stockwell’s translations include Mariette Navarro’s ULTRAMARINE and (with Sandra Smith) MON CHER AMOUR, the correspondence between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès. He lives in Minneapolis and lectures in comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.
Cory Stockwell’s translations include Mariette Navarro’s ULTRAMARINE and (with Sandra Smith) MON CHER AMOUR, the correspondence between Albert Camus and Maria Casarès. He lives in Minneapolis and lectures in comparative literature at the University of Minnesota.
NOMINATING LIBRARY COMMENTS
A poignant and deeply affecting book in which the author reflects on the tragedy that took her husband’s life many years ago. (Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon)