The Vatard Sisters by J.K. Huysmans 1983 First Edition Banned Book

Les Soeurs Vatard, described by its author as a "lewd but exact" slice of life, was J.-K. Huysmans' second novel. In it, Huysmans vividly depicts the scene that for his generation of French writers stood for the contemporary world: the brutal, teeming life of the industrial quarters of Paris in the 1870s.

Huysmans' Vatard sisters are "Désirée, an urchin of fifteen, a brunette with large, pale eyes that were somewhat crossed, plump without being fat, attractive and clean; and Céline, the carouser, a big girl with clear eyes and hair the color of straw, a solid, vigorous girl whose blood raced and danced in her veins." The two are part of that "bizarre race of young women" who work as bookbinders, whose lives revolve around the gaslighted bindery works, the gaudy shop windows, and cheap wine shops that Huysmans describes with minute and colorful detail.

Title: The Vatard Sisters 
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans 
Edition: First Edition 
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky 
Publication Date: 1983 
Binding: Hardcover 
Language: English, Translated from French. The Vatard Sisters is the first English translation of Les Soeurs Vatard. 
Pages: 168 
ISBN 0-8131-1426-8 
Measures approximately: 8 3/4 x 5 5/8 inches (22 x 14.5 cm.) 
Condition of the book: Please see the images. 
Interests: Fiction, Historical, General, Women, European, French, Studies in Romance languages 

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