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In the Absence of Men

In the Absence of Men

by Frank Wynne (Author), Frank Wynne (Author), Philippe Besson (Author)

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    Hardcover 2002

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Synopsis

Vincent is 16 and, with almost every able-bodied young man away at the front, he is approaching manhood. In his relationships with the soldier son of one of his parent's servants and with the writer, Marcel Proust he enters a world of love, both erotic and platonic.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 176
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: William Heinemann Ltd
Published: 01 Aug 2002
ISBN 10: 0434009695
ISBN 13: 9780434009695
Book Overview: A magical novel by an outrageously talented young author, which recreates, with total conviction, Paris during WWI and the world of Proust.

Media Reviews
A superb novel, brilliant, inventive and audacious... exquisite and cruel, deliciously written. - Le Monde From time to time... first novels appear which announce, without hesitation, without dispute, the arrival of a real writer... Such is the experience of reading Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men. - Magazine Litteraire
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Sales Points--Heinemann's first novel in translation since the hugely successful Atomised, which has sold 100,000 copies in Vintage--Extravagant praise in the French press- 'A superb novel, brilliant, inventive and audacious- exquisite and cruel, deliciously written' Le Monde--'From time to time, but only rarely, first novels appear which announce, without hesitation, without dispute, the arrival of a real writer. This must have been the conviction of the first readers of Camus' The Outsider or Sartre's Nausea. Such is the experience of reading Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men- There is everything here. Daring, style, humour, atmosphere, characters, truth and imaginative illusion. A world- Read this book- In reading it, I have been witness to a total triumph.' Magazine Litteraire--'What an astonishing, spellbinding first novel! The writing has genuine mastery. Precise, fluid, light- its charm is ceaseless-' T-l-rama