Victorine

Texier, Catherine. (Author). Bailey, Josephine. (Added Author). Books on Tape, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary: In her memoir, Breakup, Catherine Texier tells how her husband left her for another woman. In Victorine, Texier takes the memory of Victorine, her maternal great-grandmother, and transforms it, so that Victorine, in the throes of a grand passion, leaves her husband and children for another man. Naturally, Victorine's motives are soulful, and yet she has committed a mother's ultimate sin. Her flight with her lover to turn-of-the-century Indochina leads to days of great beauty and nights of sensuous languor, along the banks of the Mekong River. At the same time, she has much time to muse about the struggle between duty and independence, tradition and freedom, longing and regret. All of these thoughts are now condensed into a single day: a day when she has returned.

Record details

ISBN: 9781415951965 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
ISBN: 1415951969 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
Physical Description: electronic
electronic resource
remote
Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, [2008]

Content descriptions

General Note:	Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 11:04:23.
Participant or Performer Note:	Read by Josephine Bailey.
System Details Note:	Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 159168 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web.