Modern Love

Modern Love

Constance Dejong • Primary Information

ISBN-10: 0991558529 · ISBN-13: 978‑0991558520 · 2017

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Constance DeJong's debut novel, back in printPeople used to tell me, if you keep on writing maybe youll make a name for yourself, New Yorkbased artist and writer Constance DeJong (born 1950) wrote in Modern Love. They were right: My name's Constance DeJong. My name's Fifi Corday. My name's Lady Mirabelle, Monsieur Le Prince, and Roderigo. Roderigo's my favorite name. First I had my father's name, then my husband's, then another's. I dont know. I dont want to know the cause of anything. Modern Love, DeJong's first book, was published in 1977 by Standard Editions, an imprint co-founded by DeJong and Dorothea Tanning. In 1978, the text was adapted into a 60-minute radio program accompanied by the Modern Love Waltz, a piano composition by Philip Glass. In this new edition, DeJong's debut novel is brought back into print, her dissonant shifts of voice and inimitable staccato rhythm made available to a new generation of readers.

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