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The Queen´s Caprice: Stories
Jean Echenoz
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Description for The Queen´s Caprice: Stories
Paperback. Translator(s): Coverdale, Linda. Num Pages: 118 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 142 x 198 x 17. Weight in Grams: 224.
France's pre-eminent fiction writer is frequently credited with a kind of literary magic, an ability to craft stories with such precision and detail that readers are caught off guard by the powerful currents of emotion and imagination that lie just beneath the surface of his writing. The Queen's Caprice - seven new stories presented in English for the first time - reveals Echenoz at the height of his talents. The author takes us on a journey across radically different places and landscapes, giving free rein to a terrific sense of humour tinged with existential mischief' (L'Express).'
France's pre-eminent fiction writer is frequently credited with a kind of literary magic, an ability to craft stories with such precision and detail that readers are caught off guard by the powerful currents of emotion and imagination that lie just beneath the surface of his writing. The Queen's Caprice - seven new stories presented in English for the first time - reveals Echenoz at the height of his talents. The author takes us on a journey across radically different places and landscapes, giving free rein to a terrific sense of humour tinged with existential mischief' (L'Express).'
Product Details
Publisher
The New Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
223 g
Number of Pages
118
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781620970652
SKU
V9781620970652
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99-15
About Jean Echenoz
Jean Echenoz won France’s prestigious Prix Goncourt for I’m Gone (The New Press). He is the author of eleven novels in English translationincluding 1914, Big Blondes, Lightning, Piano, Ravel, and Running, all published by The New Pressand the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Médicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris. Linda Coverdale’s ... Read more
Reviews for The Queen´s Caprice: Stories
Praise for Jean Echenoz: "The most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel." The Washington Post "Writing lives! [Echenoz's] words are full of grace and surprises, and he has the ability to throw relationships among them just off-center enough to make the images of people they convey seem all the more compelling ... Read more