Paris nocturne
"This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the disappearance of the woman driver, culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy's hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion only deepens as the characters grow incre…
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- Full title :Paris nocturne / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Phoebe Weston-Evans.
Summary
"This uneasy, compelling novel begins with a nighttime accident on the streets of Paris. The unnamed narrator, a teenage boy, is hit by a car whose driver he vaguely recalls having met before. The mysterious ensuing events, involving a police van, a dose of ether, awakening in a strange hospital, and the disappearance of the woman driver, culminate in a packet being pressed into the boy's hand. It is an envelope stuffed full of bank notes. The confusion only deepens as the characters grow increasingly apprehensive; meanwhile, readers are held spellbound."--Provided by publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2015
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Yale University Press
- Place of Publication:New Haven
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2015
Notes
Originally published in French as Accident nocturne: Paris : Editions Gallimard, 2003.
The Physical Object
- Description:148 pages ; : 20 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780300215885, 0300215886
- oclc:on1052653871
- LC Classification:PQ2673.O3
- Dewey Decimal:843/.914
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