Gallic Noir Volume 1: The A26, How's the Pain, the Panda Theory

Gallic Noir Volume 1: The A26, How's the Pain, the Panda Theory

by PascalGarnier (Author)

Synopsis

Volume 1 includes How's the Pain?, the tale of an ageing `pest exterminator' taking on one last job on the French Riviera; The Panda Theory, in which a stranger, Gabriel, arrives in a Breton town and befriends the locals ... but is he as angelic as he seems?; and The A26, in which a new Picardy motorway brings modernity close to a flat in which a brother and sister live together, haunted by terminal illness and the events of 1945.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
Edition: Translation
Publisher: Gallic Books
Published: 22 Feb 2018

ISBN 10: 1910477583
ISBN 13: 9781910477588
Book Overview: Advance reading copies available to reviewers and stores. Media mailing of advance reading copies to a wide range of book reviewers at national and local media, including trade journals, newspapers, magazines, websites, zones, literary blogs, magazines, newspapers and French-American foundations and organizations. Social media campaign - online giveaways, competition and e-mail campaign Promotion through: www.gallicbooks.com Twitter and Facebook promotion to include contests and giveaway. Co-op available

Media Reviews
`A trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read' A. L. Kennedy; 'Horribly funny ... appalling and bracing in equal measure' John Banville; 'A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard' FT; 'Bleak, often funny and never predictable' The Observer; 'A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince.' Sunday Telegraph; 'Deliciously dark ... painfully funny' New York Times
Author Bio
Pascal Garnier, who died in 2010, was a prolific author of books for adults and children, and a painter. He lived in the mountains of the Ardeche.