u003cpu003eu003cbu003eFor the first time in English, literary icon Marguerite Duras's u003c/bu003eu003cbu003efoundational masterpiece about a young woman's existential u003c/bu003eu003cbu003ebreakdown in the deceptively peaceful French countryside.u003c/bu003eu003cbru003eu003cbru003eu003ciu003eThe Easy Lifeu003c/iu003e is the story of Francine Veyrenattes, a twenty-five-year-old woman who already feels like life is passing her by. After witnessing a series of tragedies on her family farm, she alternates between intense grief and staggering boredom as she discovers a curious detachment in herself, an inability to navigate the world as others do. Hoping to be cleansed of whatever ails her, she travels to the coast to visit the sea. But there she finds herself unraveling, uncertain of what is inside her. Lying in the sun with her toes in the sand by day while psychologically dissolving in her hotel room by night, she soon reaches the peak of her inner crisis and must grapple with whether and how she can take hold of her own existence. u003cbru003eu003cbru003eAn extraordinary examination of a young woman's estrangement from the world that only Marguerite Duras could have written, u003ciu003eThe Easy Lifeu003c/iu003e is a work of unsettling beauty and insight, and a bold, spellbinding journey into the depths of the human heart.u003c/pu003e
