Age of Suspicion by Nathalie Sarraute In four essays, written from 1947 to 1956, Saurraute relates the novelistic intentions of past master writers to makers of the New French Novel. Speaking with the authority of a practicing innovator, Sarraute considers a wide range of talents, from Madame de la Fayette, Virginia Woolf, and Balzac to James Joyce, in order to trace the evolution of the novel, and more importantly, to foresee its future. In the last pages, she salutes those writers who will, like herself, continue to "break way from all that is prescribed and conventional and dead, and turn toward what is free, sincere, alive..." PA, ISBN: 0807612537 $7.95 (Can: $11.99)