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Little Grey Lies
Hedi Kaddour
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Description for Little Grey Lies
Hardback. Features Max, a French journalist looking for his next story, and Lena, an American singer, who were once lovers, but now friends. They travel with Lena's new man, Thibault and with Max's barely masked jealousy. Then they meet the striking Colonel Strether, the epitome of military decorum and bearing. Translator(s): Fagan, Teresa Lavender. Series: The French List. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 135 x 19. Weight in Grams: 312.
London between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the after-effects of the stock market crash hit London and, even as the fortunes of the aristocracy went into decline, there was hunger and a rising tide of virulent fascism. It is in this setting that Max, a French journalist looking for his next story, and Lena, an American singer, find themselves in Hedi Kaddour's "Little Grey Lies". Once lovers, but now friends, Max and Lena travel with Lena's new man, Thibault and with Max's barely masked jealousy. Then they meet the ... Read more
London between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the after-effects of the stock market crash hit London and, even as the fortunes of the aristocracy went into decline, there was hunger and a rising tide of virulent fascism. It is in this setting that Max, a French journalist looking for his next story, and Lena, an American singer, find themselves in Hedi Kaddour's "Little Grey Lies". Once lovers, but now friends, Max and Lena travel with Lena's new man, Thibault and with Max's barely masked jealousy. Then they meet the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Seagull Books London Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
The French List
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Greenford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857420985
SKU
V9780857420985
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About Hedi Kaddour
Hedi Kaddour is professor of French literature at New York University's Paris campus. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator who lives in Chicago. She has published more than twenty translations.
Reviews for Little Grey Lies
"Little Grey Lies is a very British novel, steeped in the atmosphere of Edgar P. Jacobs and the vintage grandeur of Blake and Mortimer. Thinner but no less ambitious than Waltenberg, this is an elegant novel."-Pierre Assouline, Le Monde"