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Fatale
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Fabulous start, wonderful descriptive prose, straightforward plot, charmingly ruthless femme fatale.
The first half of the book is superb, but then looses focus, and ends quite chaotically with a highly implausible climax. Too bad.
Bléville is, literally, Wheatville, but blé in a slang sense means money. The town’s name is thus something like Doughville.
Notes:
1.0% "... from the foreword...
"IN AUGUST 1980, in a homage to Dashiell Hammett entitled A Toast to Dash, Jean-Patrick Manchette declared Hammett “the best novelist in the world since 1920, and I can prove it”. Well, I believe Jean-Patrick Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir, and I also believe I can prove it.""
2.0% ".... skip the introduction. Very dull"
14.0% "... lovely, spare prose with flowing, detailed descriptions."
17.0% "... the translation from French is idiomatic and superb."
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The first half of the book is superb, but then looses focus, and ends quite chaotically with a highly implausible climax. Too bad.
Bléville is, literally, Wheatville, but blé in a slang sense means money. The town’s name is thus something like Doughville.
Notes:
1.0% "... from the foreword...
"IN AUGUST 1980, in a homage to Dashiell Hammett entitled A Toast to Dash, Jean-Patrick Manchette declared Hammett “the best novelist in the world since 1920, and I can prove it”. Well, I believe Jean-Patrick Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir, and I also believe I can prove it.""
2.0% ".... skip the introduction. Very dull"
14.0% "... lovely, spare prose with flowing, detailed descriptions."
17.0% "... the translation from French is idiomatic and superb."
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December 1, 2017
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December 1, 2017
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December 1, 2017
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"... from the foreword...
"IN AUGUST 1980, in a homage to Dashiell Hammett entitled A Toast to Dash, Jean-Patrick Manchette declared Hammett “the best novelist in the world since 1920, and I can prove it”. Well, I believe Jean-Patrick Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir, and I also believe I can prove it.""
"IN AUGUST 1980, in a homage to Dashiell Hammett entitled A Toast to Dash, Jean-Patrick Manchette declared Hammett “the best novelist in the world since 1920, and I can prove it”. Well, I believe Jean-Patrick Manchette is one of the greatest writers since Dashiell Hammett, his only true son and heir, and I also believe I can prove it.""
December 20, 2017
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Glenn wrote: " I'm taken by the highly implausible..."You're just an old softie for a pretty face (and a gun) 😊
Do you know who did the translation? Was it David Peace? It's wonderful.
William wrote: "Glenn wrote: " I'm taken by the highly implausible..."You're just an old softie for a pretty face (and a gun) 😊
Do you know who did the translation? Was it David Peace? It's wonderful."
My copy is part of the New York Review Books series with an Afterward by Jean Echenoz. Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
Glenn wrote: "My copy is part of the New York Review Books series with an Afterward by Jean Echenoz. Translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith. "Thank you!
ends quite chaotically with a highly implausible climax. ----------- One of my very favorite novels; one of my all-time favorite endings!! I suppose, given my love for the alluring cutie Aimée Joubert, I'm taken by the highly implausible.