The Mystery Guest - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374185700 ISBN 13: 9780374185701

Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2006

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Book by Bouillier Grgoire

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Reseña del editor:

When the phone rang on a gloomy fall afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that it was the woman who’d left him, without warning, ten years before. And he couldn’t have guessed why she was calling—not to apologize for, or explain, the way she’d vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he’d never met.  This is the story of how one man got over a broken heart, learned to love again, stopped wearing turtlenecks, regained his faith in literature, participated in a work of performance art by mistake, and spent his rent money on a bottle of 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank. The Mystery Guest is, in the words of L’Humanité, a work of “fiendish wit and refinement.” It pushes the conventions of autobiography (and those great themes of French literature: love and aging) to an absurd, poignant, and very funny conclusion. This translation marks the English-language debut of an iconoclast who has attracted one of the most passionate cult followings in French literature today.

Biografía del autor:

Grégoire Bouillier’s first book, Rapport sur moi, received the 2002 Prix de Flore for an author of outstanding promise. The Mystery Guest (L’invité mystère) is his second book. He lives in Paris.

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• Verlag: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0374185700
• ISBN 13: 9780374185701
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 120