Undercurrents

First US edition. 12mo. Pp. [x], 114, [1]. Turquoise paper-covered boards, stamped in silver to spine. Jacket design by Hall Smyth, BAD.

Signed by Author to title page, along with a minimalist sketch of a crushing wave with seagulls circling above.

Translated from the French by Linda Coverdale. Originally published by Éditions P.O.L in 1999 as La Mal de Mer. Issued as Breathing Underwater in the UK.

Darrieussecq's third novel. A mother and daughter escape to a deserted seaside town in France, where the author poetically evokes the varied moods and rich palette of the ocean. "France's best young novelist." –The New Yorker