Mauve Desert

Mauve Desert is both a single novel and three separate novels in one. In the first, Mauve Desert, 15-year-old Melanie drives across the Arizona desert in a white Meteor chasing fear and desire, cutting loose from her mother and her mother's lover Lorna in their roadside Mauve Motel. In the second book, Maude Laures reads Mauve Desert, becomes obsessed with it, and embarks on an extraordinary quest for its mysterious author, characters and meaning. The third book Mauve, the Horizon is Laures' eventual translation of Mauve Desert. Like all good translations, it is both the same and revealingly different from the original. Nicole Brossard's writing is agile and inventive; from moment to moment gripping, exhilarating and erotic.Nicole Brossard is the author of 'Mauve Desert', published 1998 under ISBN 9780771016851 and ISBN 0771016859.