Jean-Philippe Blondel
The 6:41 to Paris
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After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation almost thirty years ago. In the fraught ho…
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After decades, former lovers come face to face in a novel filled with a suspenseful dread that makes you want to turn every page at locomotive pace (St. Louis Post-Dispatch). Cécile, a stylish forty-seven-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she's exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful, and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it's soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation almost thirty years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles toward the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face-to-face journey-In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?-with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This intense, intimate novel offers a taut, suspenseful psychological journey from which there is no escape . . . Gripping (Kati Marton, author of Paris: A Love Story). Perfectly written and a remarkably suspenseful read . . . Absorbing, intriguing, insightful. -Library Journal (starred review)
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Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Hoover, Michelle / Anderson, Alison (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-939931-31-3
- EAN: 9781939931313
- Produktnummer: 22596334
- Verlag: New Vessel Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 146 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'667 KB
Über den Autor
Jean-Philippe Blondel was born in 1964 in Troyes, France where he lives as an author and English teacher. His novel The 6:41 to Paris has been a best-seller in both France and Germany.Alison Anderson is a novelist and translator whose previous translations include The Elegance of the Hedgehog.
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