Sally Mara's Intimate Diary
Queneau, Raymond / Gosling, James
Sally Mara‿s Intimate Diary, dating from 1950, is exceptional, a salacious, black humorous andmeaningful story by the influential and erudite French novelist, Raymond Queneau. When ‿Sally Mara‿begins her diary in January 1934, she is 17 years old and lives with her mother, older brother andyounger sister in south central Dublin. The everyday language is, of course, English, but she is writingin ‿newly-learned‿ French to impress her beloved and...