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Title: Young Once: New York Review of Books Classics
Author: MODIANO PATRICK
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 08/03/2016
Imprint: NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
An NYRB Classics Original “Young Once “is a crucial book in the career of Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano. It was his breakthrough novel, in which he stripped away the difficulties of his earlier work and found a clear, mysteriously moving voice for his haunting stories of love, nostalgia, and grief. It has also been called the most gripping Modiano book of all (“Der Spiegel”). Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile s thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis s thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. They move through a Paris saturated with the crimes and secrets of the past but breathing hopes for the future; they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth.”
ISBN: 9781590179550
Weight: 367g
Pages: 176