Gilles Leroy

French novelist, born 1958; author of novels, plays and essays, and winner of the 2007 Prix Goncourt for Alabama Song.

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  1. 1. Alabama Song

    A lyrical, fictionalized memoir narrated by a passionate Southern woman who becomes the celebrated and troubled wife of a famous novelist, recalling a life of dazzling parties, artistic ambitions as a dancer and writer, intoxicating love affairs, alcoholism, jealousy and humiliation, the strain of living in her husband’s shadow, and the gradual collapse into mental illness and institutionalization against the glamour and decay of the Jazz Age and interwar Europe.

    The 13553rd Greatest Book of All Time