Crush by Frdric Dard
Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of colour, good humour and easy living in drab 1950s L opoldville, and soon Louise is working there as a maid. But once she is under her new employers' roof their model life starts to fall apart - painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear and a dark obsession begins to grow, which will end in murder.
The cleverness of Dard's Georges Simenon-influenced novella lies in the way that it lulls you into thinking this is just another tale of a teenager's shattered dreams.. it is much darker than that Sunday Times The wonder is that Frederic Dard's singular take on crime noir is not better known in this country. Served by an excellent translator, Dard has much to offer Daily Mail The French master of noir Observer Spellbinding... A sharp, short, well-told tale Wall Street Journal On top of that, it is a thrilling character study of a teenage girl driven to despair by their family and the prospectless city she is stuck in International Crime Fiction A snappy and sassy little drama - not just for the crime shelves, as this has a look at strong characters living through base emotions. Highly recommended Bookbag No question: for me, he was the greatest Philippe Geluck The literary descendant of Simenon and Celine Le Figaro His language is cutting, his point-of-view original and his verdict uncompromising... One of the few twentieth-century authors to win both critical acclaim and great popularity Solidarite Militaire France's most popular post-war author L'Express
Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific, he wrote more than three hundred thrillers, suspense stories, plays and screenplays, under a variety of noms de plume, throughout his long and illustrious career, which also saw him win the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for The Executioner Weeps, forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo. Dard's Bird in a Cage, The Wicked Go to Hell and the The Gravediggers' Bread are also available or forthcoming from Pushkin Vertigo.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781782271987 |
| ISBN 10 | 1782271988 |
| Title | Crush |
| Author | Frdric Dard |
| Series | Pushkin Vertigo Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pushkin Press |
| Year published | 2016-10-06 |
| Number of pages | 160 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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