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The Glory of the Pythres
Richard Millet
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Description for The Glory of the Pythres
Hardcover. Set in the villages and valleys of France's mountainous provinces, this novel follows the fortunes - or rather, the colossal misfortunes - of the "suspicious, taciturn, mulish, stubborn," Pythres. Translator(s): Cumming, John. Num Pages: 376 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 26. Weight in Grams: 608.
This novel begins with a funeral for a young mother: ""A good-looking girl, anyway, who with that coif of hers got to look rather like a nun as the years passed, and whom few of us were content to see lying between oak planks in her least worn dress, the black one she got into on Sundays, even when she couldn't go to Mass at Saint-Sulpice, and that smelled clean, with no odor (no smoke, sweat, animals, cabbage or milk) other than the soap they said came from Marseilles and which in the spring left big bluish trails in the ... Read more
This novel begins with a funeral for a young mother: ""A good-looking girl, anyway, who with that coif of hers got to look rather like a nun as the years passed, and whom few of us were content to see lying between oak planks in her least worn dress, the black one she got into on Sundays, even when she couldn't go to Mass at Saint-Sulpice, and that smelled clean, with no odor (no smoke, sweat, animals, cabbage or milk) other than the soap they said came from Marseilles and which in the spring left big bluish trails in the ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Marlboro Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
376
Place of Publication
Evanston, United States
ISBN
9780810160897
SKU
V9780810160897
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99-15
About Richard Millet
Richard Millet was born in 1953. He is the author of nearly twenty other works in his native France, Including L'Innocence, L'amour des trols soeurs Plale, and L'Invention du corps de Saint Marc. He lives in Paris. John Cumming is the translator of Jean Giono's An Italian journey, published in 2001 by Northwestern University Press.
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