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The Girl from the Chartreuse
Pierre Péju
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Description for The Girl from the Chartreuse
Paperback. The owner of the bookshop The Verb To Be, is a red-haired giant imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of new and second-hand books, EtienneVollard knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, Eva. Num Pages: 176 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
The owner of the bookshop THE VERB TO BE, is a red-haired giant imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of new and second-hand books, ÉtienneVollard knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, Éva. In the hospital, he meets Éva's mother, Thérèse, a struggling single parent who lacks maternal instincts and whose dream is to be faraway, alone. Both are haunted by guilt: Thérèse because of her lateness in collecting her daughter, and Vollard because he did not manage to stop his car on time (even if he knows that he could ... Read more
The owner of the bookshop THE VERB TO BE, is a red-haired giant imprisoned in an enormous body and his solitude. One wet afternoon, driving a vanload of new and second-hand books, ÉtienneVollard knocks down and seriously injures a little girl, Éva. In the hospital, he meets Éva's mother, Thérèse, a struggling single parent who lacks maternal instincts and whose dream is to be faraway, alone. Both are haunted by guilt: Thérèse because of her lateness in collecting her daughter, and Vollard because he did not manage to stop his car on time (even if he knows that he could ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Vintage Publishing
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099468691
SKU
KAC0001410
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Pierre Péju
PIERRE PEJU, writer, philosopher and director of studies at the International College of Philosophy, has written four books. The Girl from the Chartreuse, his latest one, met with an exceptional critical and commercial success in France.
Reviews for The Girl from the Chartreuse
'Peju's real subject is literature itself...Péju treads a fine line between pretension and profundity, layering his text with many others from the Gospels to Becket and Borges, but his own words, weighed against theirs, are rarely found wanting.'
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