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Original Title:	Bord de mer
ISBN:	0956284027 (ISBN13: 9780956284020)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Independent Foreign Fiction Prize Nominee for Longlist (2011), Prix Alain-Fournier (2002), Scott Moncrieff Prize for Adriana Hunter (2011)

Beside the Sea

Véronique Olmi

Paperback | Pages: 120 pages

Rating: 3.88 | 795 Users | 180 Reviews

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Title	:	Beside the Sea
Author	:	Véronique Olmi
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 120 pages
Published	:	June 1st 2010 by Peirene Press Ltd (first published March 28th 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. France. Contemporary

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A single mother takes her two sons on a trip to the seaside. They stay in a hotel, drink hot chocolate, and go to the funfair. She wants to protect them from an uncaring and uncomprehending world. She knows that it will be the last trip for her boys.

Beside the Sea is a haunting and thought-provoking story about how a mother's love for her children can be more dangerous than the dark world she is seeking to keep at bay. It's a hypnotizing look at an unhinged mind and the cold society that produced it. With language as captivating as the story that unfolds, Véronique Olmi creates an intimate portrait of madness and despair that won't soon be forgotten.

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Ratings: 3.88 From 795 Users | 180 Reviews

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This beautiful little book gutted me. Veronique Olmi is a successful French playwright, and Beside the Sea is her first novel. The story is narrated by an unnamed mentally unstable woman, who barely manages to make it through the day, struggling with depression, insomnia, meds, poverty, a broken collarbone, exhaustion, chemical imbalance, and above all else, the crushing responsibility she bears for her two little innocent sons, aged 5 (Kevin) and 9 (Stan). Olmi eloquently describes the

A schizophrenic woman takes her two boys to the sea for one last time. Even knowing from the back cover that this book would have a devastating end, it is the journey that intrigued me. To see her crumbling thoughts and emotions that got her there. It is a very sad and tragic book, but a powerfully engaging journey. In the beginning the punctuation was driving me to distraction - but once I got past that, it was sad and powerful.

3.5 StarsWhew! Not a great way to end the year......at least from a feel good standpoint.Veronique's Olmi's BESIDE THE SEA brings to life a very dark and intensely sad story so full of despair and hopelessness that makes me thankful it was a short 125 page read.In this haunting look at mental illness, a mother decides to take her two young children on a bus trip to the seashore for a bit of a holiday, and with only a few coins in the tin and her medication left behind, the desperation in her

Beside the Sea is the story of a mother and her two sons, off on a trip to a small unremarkable town located near the sea. As the book opens, we can see hints at the mother having suffered from something or someone; has she gone through some psychosis that is still shaping her actions and being, has she been the victim of domestic abuse? Its never explicitly said, although the frequent references to both social workers and psychiatrist meetings confirms that something has gone wrong in this

Just arrived from Sweden. A sweet gift from my dear friend Bettie.The plot is quite similar to "Beloved" by Toni Morrison in a complete different context of course.However, I still think it's hard to understand, in this particular book, the children's destiny stablished by their mother. To think about.

I wanted to read this in the original French but I have not been able to find a copy so I succumbed to the English translation. I am definitely going to want to read this in French when I can. It is so powerful; so haunting; and so extremely sad.

What does it mean to be a mother?Does being able to have birth to Children means you have the right to have them?How stable I mean ( mentally,financially) should the person be so that he could a baby?Who determines who have the right to bring children to this world?And if you had the child who determines you can keep your child, does the state have that right?or the social worker?What does it mean to be so poor in developed state?What does it mean to be single mother in today world is it? Is it