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A review by bluestarfish
Jezebel by Irène Némirovsky
4.0
In the first part of the book Gladys Eysenach is in a court room accused of murdering a young man. It was increadible as I read it how I really felt that Gladys is being judged so severely by everyone in the book and how that didn't seem fair and you hoped the judge would pass a lenient sentence on her.
After the sentence Irene Nemirovsky takes us back and gives us more of Gladys's history and her life and the events leading up to the murder and, well, lets say I ended up feeling very differently about her. What a woman! And also what an interesting study of the cult of youth and beauty. It's quite refreshing to read a book where the main character is so interesting without being likeable, and even more so when it's a woman.
After the sentence Irene Nemirovsky takes us back and gives us more of Gladys's history and her life and the events leading up to the murder and, well, lets say I ended up feeling very differently about her. What a woman! And also what an interesting study of the cult of youth and beauty. It's quite refreshing to read a book where the main character is so interesting without being likeable, and even more so when it's a woman.