Such Fine Boys

Informationen zum Autor Internationally renowned author Patrick Modiano has received many prestigious literary awards, among them the 2014 Nobel Prize for Literature. Mark Polizzotti is the translator of more than forty books from the French, including seven by Modiano. He directs the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Klappentext "As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among themselves. Misfits and heroes, sports champions and good-hearted chums, the boys of Valvert misbehave, run away, get expelled, and engage in various forms of delinquency and disappearance. They emerge into adulthood tragically damaged, still tethered to their adolescent selves, powerless to escape the central loneliness of their lives in an ever-darkening spiral of self-delusion and grim consequence"--Back cover. Zusammenfassung Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano's spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Patrick Modiano, Modiano Patrick
• Con la collaborazione di: Le Clezio J. M. G. (Prefazione), Mark Polizzotti (Traduzione), Polizzotti Mark (Traduzione)
• Editore: Yale University Press Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 19.09.2017
• EAN: 9780300223347
• ISBN: 978-0-300-22334-7
• Pagine: 208
• Dimensioni: 131 mm x 203 mm x 16 mm
• Serie: The Margellos World Republic of Letters
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Paris, sports, Coming of age, Literature, Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945), France, FICTION / Literary, rich kids, Friendship, adolescence, Fate, Bullying, Youth, School, Drugs, nostalgia, Boarding School, Wealth, alcohol, Nobility, French Literature, Literary fiction, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Expulsion, Privilege, Social Life, Modern Literature, emptiness, Misfit, Delinquency, fitting in, teen issues, Multiple narrators, absent parents, schoolboys, partying, Abandoned Children, school years, neglectful parents, postwar world