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|author=Ian PenmanMakenna Goodman|title=Erik Satie Three Piece Suite|rating=3.5|genre=Biography|summary=This unconventional biography somewhat mirrors Satie's admittedly effusive personality: whimsical, experimental and creative. It is divided into three sections: the first, an essay, the second, an A-Z encyclopedia on Satie and the third, a 'Satie Diary', documenting Ian Penman's thoughts surrounding Satie, his muse. |isbn=1804271535}}'''5 JUNE'''{{Frontpage|author=Helene Bessette and Kate Briggs (translator)|title=Lili is CryingHelen of Nowhere

|summary=First published It could be argued that the pervading theme of this book is malaise - a hard-to-place feeling that something in 1953 in Frenchyour life is not quite right. The protagonist, a disgraced professor on the brink of losing both his career and his relationship, embodies this novel is feeling. However, Goodman counteracts his discomfort with a timeless text force which wrenches is seductive, radical and unnerving: Helen. The connection between Helen and the protagonist is indirect yet intimate. As the hearts former owner of its readers just as Bessette wrenches words and sentences from their proper position on the page and positions them elsewherecountryside house he's considering, disjointedHelen represents a volta in his life, truncatedher past tied to his potential fresh start. Like The realtor who shows the protagonist around the house shares stories about Helen, and describes her as ''an entity that is pure consciousness, beyond form''. Although she lives of her charactersin an assisted living facility now, they Helen has powers beyond comprehension which the reader gets the sense are often left tragically incompletenot altogether innocuous.|isbn=18042716751804272205