| Description |
446 pages ; 21 cm |
| Note |
Translated from the French. |
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Translation of: Histoires de la nuit. |
| Summary |
"Buried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his family's farm; his wife, Marion; their daughter, Ida; and their neighbor, Christine, an artist. While Patrice plans a surprise for his wife's fortieth birthday, inexplicable events start to disrupt the hamlet's quiet existence: anonymous, menacing letters, an unfamiliar car rolling up the driveway. And as night falls, strangers stalk the houses, unleashing a nightmarish chain of events. Told in rhythmic, propulsive prose that weaves seamlessly from one consciousness to the next over the course of a day, Laurent Mauvignier's The Birthday Party is a deft unraveling of the stories we hide from others and from ourselves, a gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, written by a major contemporary French writer."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Subject |
Anonymous letters -- Fiction.
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Captivity -- Fiction.
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Threat (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Birthday parties -- Fiction.
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France -- Fiction.
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Farm life -- Fiction.
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Women painters -- Fiction.
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Strangers -- Fiction.
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Marital conflict -- Fiction.
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| Genre/Form |
Thrillers (Fiction)
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Novels.
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| Added Author |
Levin Becker, Daniel, translator.
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| Added Title |
Histoires de la nuit. English
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| ISBN |
9781945492655 (paperback) |
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1945492651 (paperback) |
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