Playboy (Semiotext

I see all her beauty, I see the beauty of women. I see my own body, new. I tell myself there are so many things that are possible.
First published in France in 2018, Playboy is the first volume of Constance Debré's renowned autobiographical trilogy that describes her decision, at age forty-three, to abandon her marriage, her legal career, and her bourgeois Parisian life to become a lesbian and a writer.
The novel unfolds in a series of short, sharp vignettes. The narrator's descriptions of her first female lovers-a married woman fifteen years older than her, a model ten years her junior-are punctuated by encounters with her ex-husband, her father, and her son.
As Debré recently told
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