The English understand wool
The English understand wool
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"Maman was exigeante—there is no word like French—in matters of protocol. Lunch, afternoon tea, and dinner were served with all formality. In my father's presence we spoke English; if it was just the two of us, French."
Seventeen-year-old Marguerite has one concern: not to succumb to any inelegant behavior. One must prove that one understands at all times what good taste demands. One must practice Bach daily. One must buy one's tweeds in Scotland but sew them in England.
During a trip to London, all the facts of Marguerite's life will be turned upside down. Will she be able to defend herself with the equipment that her maman offered her? How will she face the big New York publishers who are fighting over her story?
A brilliantly cold novel about the concept of hypocrisy and the limits of immorality.
"Wonderfully heartless style"
The New Yorker
"A comic gem from an eccentric genius of our time"
Wall Street Journal
"The perfect introduction to the anarchist pleasures of De Witt's literature"
Los Angeles Times
"One of our most original writers. With wonderfully satirical arrows against the publishing industry and the hypocrisy of commercialized narratives of trauma"
Washington Post
"De Witt's best and funniest book—and that, given the standard she has set with the rest of her work, is an achievement in itself"
The Times Literary Supplement
