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Alberta and Freedom
Alberta and Freedom

Alberta and Freedom

By Cora Sandel, Translated by Elizabeth Rokkan

Alberta

FICTION

220 Pages, 5 x 7.5

Formats: Trade Paper

Trade Paper, $15.95 (US $15.95) (CA $17.95)

Publication Date: November 2007

ISBN 9780720612639

Rights: US & CA

Peter Owen Publishers (Nov 2007)

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Overview

Cora Sandel was one of the most important Scandinavian writers of the 20th century and this is the second volume in her richly acclaimed Alberta trilogy. Alberta Selmer escapes from her cold suffocating provincial life in Norway to seek out the summer riches in Paris: a city where the bohemians will never die, where there is absinthe and endless talk of Cubism. But Paris is not all she imagined: although she begins to write small pieces for newspapers and periodicals, Alberta's self-esteem is low, and her inexperience makes her prey to the casual approaches of predatory men. Relationships, when they happen, are neither easy nor happy. Feeling her talent beginning to suffer and her freedom stagnating, Alberta faces a struggle to survive. After its publication in 1931, Alberta and Freedom established itself as an immediate classic and Alberta Selmer as one of the century's great anti-heroines.

Reviews

"Ahead of her time . . . Like Virginia Woolf, though much tougher . . . A classic."  —Times Literary Supplement

Author Biography

Cora Sandel was the author of the semi-autobiographical Alberta trilogy. She was awarded a State Pension for artists by Norway.