False Company
Publisher
:
Actes Sud
Parution date
:
2000
EAN
:
9782742728794
Description
Nineteen-year-old Thibaud has taken a summer job in a supermarket. Since his mother died, Thibaud and his father, an overworked architect, must put up with his new live-in grandmother and her entourage of gossiping old ladies. Her friends are maddening, yet harmless. But when Thibaud becomes friendly with the Mouron family, the grandmother and her companions go over the top. The Mourons are ordinary enough, but to the grandmother and her entourage they seem to represent a terrifying danger. In this edgy first novel, Gilles Abier addresses the themes of intolerance and violence in language. With subtlety and humor, he constructs a universe of conspiracy and predicts the death of innocence.
Author
Gilles Abier : Gilles Abier is 30 years old. He studied drama in England before settling in Paris.
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