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'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times
'Action-packed and full of gallows humour' Sunday Telegraph
Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast, and he needs a driver.
Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he's never seen the sea. He can't pass up the chance to chauffeur for Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon's definition of vermin is broader than he'd expected ...
Veering from the hilarious to the horrific, this offbeat story from master stylist Pascal Garnier is at heart an affecting study of human frailty.
Info autore
Pascal Garnier: Pascal Garnier is a leading figure in contemporary French literature, in the tradition of Georges
Simenon. He lived in a small village in the Ardèche devoting himself to writing and painting. Garnier died in March 2010.
Emily Boyce: Emily Boyce is in-house translator for Gallic Books. She lives in London
Riassunto
'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times
'Action-packed and full of gallows humour' Sunday Telegraph
Death is Simon's business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast, and he needs a driver.
Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he’s never seen the sea. He can’t pass up the chance to chauffeur for Simon, whatever his mother may say. As the unlikely pair set off on their journey, Bernard soon finds that Simon’s definition of vermin is broader than he’d expected ...
Veering from the hilarious to the horrific, this offbeat story from master stylist Pascal Garnier is at heart an affecting study of human frailty.
Testo aggiuntivo
'At once extremely violent, irresistibly funny, and inexplicably moving, in the subtle way that only genuine art can manage to be' John Banville, New York Review of Books
'Garnier's take on the frailty of life has a bracing originality' Sunday Times
'Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He’s a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. Kennedy
'Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit' The Observer
'Tense, strange, disconcerting and slyly funny' Sunday Times
'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince' Sunday Telegraph
'A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard' FT
'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' The Observer
'A master of the surreal noir thriller – Luis Buñuel meets Georges Simenon' TLS
‘A jeu d’esprit of hard-boiled symbolism, with echoes of Raymond Chandler, T.S. Eliot and the Marx Brothers’ Wall Street Journal
Relazione
'At once extremely violent, irresistibly funny, and inexplicably moving, in the subtle way that only genuine art can manage to be' John Banville, New York Review of Books
'Garnier's take on the frailty of life has a bracing originality' Sunday Times
'Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He's a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. Kennedy
'Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit' The Observer
'Tense, strange, disconcerting and slyly funny' Sunday Times
'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince' Sunday Telegraph
'A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard' FT
'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' The Observer
'A master of the surreal noir thriller - Luis Buñuel meets Georges Simenon' TLS
'A jeu d'esprit of hard-boiled symbolism, with echoes of Raymond Chandler, T.S. Eliot and the Marx Brothers' Wall Street Journal
