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Product Identifiers
PublisherSerpent's Tail The Limited
ISBN-101852422246
ISBN-139781852422240
eBay Product ID (ePID)346254
Product Key Features
Book TitleGangsters
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1992
TopicGeneral
GenreFiction
AuthorHerve Guibert
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.2 Oz
Item Length7.9 in
Item Width5.1 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
Reviews?Guibert?s portrayal of the women is a triumph of art over unpromising subject matter...best thin novel of the year.? The Observer ?Guibert brings out the subtle beauty of these little happenings and offers a unique understanding of the constant puzzles life offers.? L.A. Reader
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal843.914
SynopsisFollowing an unpleasant encounter with a gang of extortioners, the narrator of this novel leaves for a holiday with an acquaintance, Vincent, whose ambiguous and menacing presence becomes increasingly oppressive. A story of homosexuality by the author of Mes Parents and Mauve le Vierge., The narrator, Herv?, returns to Paris tormented by a painful attack of shingles to discover that Louise and Suzanne, his two elderly great?aunts, are being terrorized and robbed by a gang of extortioners posing as building workers renovating their suburban house. He calls in the police, but the investigation fizzles out in a morass of inertia, buck?passing and covert racism. Wearied, ill, and sliding by degrees into paranoia, the narrator leaves for a holiday. With him goes Vincent, a friend whose ambiguous and menacing presence has become increasingly oppressive and who, at the end of the book, may?or may not?murder him.
