Eric Romand
Éric Romand est venu à l’écriture par le théâtre. Il est coauteur de Comme à la maison, une pièce créée en 2017 au Théâtre de Paris. Mon père, ma mère et Sheila est son premier...
Mon père, ma mère et Sheila
Auteur
Parution :
23/08/2017
Collection :
La Bleue
MY FATHER, MY MOTHER AND SHEILA
By Éric Romand
A bitter-sweet immersion in French provincial life and one young man’s journey as he discovers his homosexuality while confronting family upheavals and taboos.
Set during the 70s and 80s, this is like a photo album of a family from a working-class background with its codes and taboos, its ignorance, its complexes and disputes. The narrator describes his childhood in this rowdy setting. Those close to him think he has strange tastes, and he has a way about him that enrages his father and breaks his mother’s heart. He draws pictures of dresses and gives his sister’s dolls fancy hairstyle. He does his best not to add to the tension. To escape, he presses his ear up to his slot-in record player, watches glittering variety shows… and falls for a famous singer, smitten by her sequinned dresses and upbeat refrains. He wants to be her. He doesn’t want to be here. A first novel full of sensitivity, set against a background of nostalgia and a healthy dose of humour.
Éric Romand came to writing through theatre. He cowrote Comme à la maison, a play first performed in Paris in 2017. My Father, My Mother and Sheila is his first novel.
By Éric Romand
A bitter-sweet immersion in French provincial life and one young man’s journey as he discovers his homosexuality while confronting family upheavals and taboos.
Set during the 70s and 80s, this is like a photo album of a family from a working-class background with its codes and taboos, its ignorance, its complexes and disputes. The narrator describes his childhood in this rowdy setting. Those close to him think he has strange tastes, and he has a way about him that enrages his father and breaks his mother’s heart. He draws pictures of dresses and gives his sister’s dolls fancy hairstyle. He does his best not to add to the tension. To escape, he presses his ear up to his slot-in record player, watches glittering variety shows… and falls for a famous singer, smitten by her sequinned dresses and upbeat refrains. He wants to be her. He doesn’t want to be here. A first novel full of sensitivity, set against a background of nostalgia and a healthy dose of humour.
Éric Romand came to writing through theatre. He cowrote Comme à la maison, a play first performed in Paris in 2017. My Father, My Mother and Sheila is his first novel.
C’est l’album d’une famille, issue d’un milieu populaire, avec ses codes, ses tabous, ses complexes, son ignorance, ses contentieux, dans les années 70 et 80. Le narrateur y raconte son enfance solitaire au milieu des turbulences. Pour son entourage, il a des goûts bizarres, des attitudes gênantes, des manières qui provoquent la colère de son père et la désolation de sa mère. Il dessine des robes et coiffe les poupées de sa sœur. Il fait son possible pour ne pas ajouter au malaise. Pour s’échapper, il colle son oreille à son mange-disque. Regarde les émissions de variétés scintillantes… Et admire une célèbre chanteuse dont il aime les robes à paillettes, les refrains joyeux. Il voudrait être elle. Il voudrait être ailleurs. Un premier roman tout en sensibilité sur fond de nostalgie douce amère et d’humour salutaire.
112 pages
Format :
123 x 186 mm
EAN :
9782234083578
Prix :
14.50 €
