Crawl Space

Winner of the Bard Fiction Prize
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year
An Electric Review Best Book of the Year
A ReadySteadyBook Best Book of the Year

It's 1999 and Emile Poulquet awaits sentencing in a Paris court for deporting thousands to almost certain death during World War II. But, haunted by ghosts from his former life, and determined to confront his dark legacy, he escapes and heads toward his beloved Finier, a rural town in the south of France where he once served as prefect. His return will have explosive consequences.

By turns reflective and slyly humorous, Crawl Space poignantly describes one man's tragic attempt to come to terms with the past.

About the author

Edie Meidav is the author of The Far Field: A Novel of Ceylon and Crawl Space (FSG, 2005). Winner of a Lannan Fellowship, a Howard Fellowship, the Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman, and the Bard Fiction Prize, she teaches at Bard College.

Product details

• Authors: Edie Meidav
• Publisher: St. Martins Press-3pl
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.2006
• EAN: 9780312425753
• ISBN: 978-0-312-42575-3
• No. of pages: 460
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 27 mm
• Weight: 644 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature