Voice Over - Softcover

Curiol, C�line

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ISBN 10: 0771018169 ISBN 13: 9780771018169

Publisher: McClelland & Stewart, 2007

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A lonely young woman works as an announcer in Paris’s Gare du Nord, surrounded by people yet separate from them. Obsessed with a man who loves another, she suffers alone as she waits for him. In her solitude, she wanders the streets of the modern city, playing on the edge of danger, seeking connection. Her interactions with strangers create a confrontation between the intimate and the anonymous, revealing to her man’s most human desires.

Just thirty, debut literary novelist C�line Curiol has the ability to write, with great psychological tension, about the innermost depth of her characters, with all their contradictions, impulses, and humanity. She captures an existential and witty vision of our contemporary world.

Voice Over was recently published in the author’s native France to great acclaim, and rights have been sold in fourteen countries. The novel appears now for the first time in English.

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About the Author:

C�line Curiol is a journalist who has worked for various French media, including Lib�ration, Radio France, and BBC Afrique. Her second novel, Permission, has recently been published in France. Originally from Lyon, France, Curiol lives in New York City, where she is at work on her third novel.

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This debut novel, a best-seller in France in 2005, may attract media attention because of its distinctive style, titillating subject matter, and the fact that it is oh-so-French. The nameless Parisian female narrator works at the Gare du Nord train station announcing arrival and departure times. With little connection to her coworkers and the harried travelers who throng the station, she is hardly more than a disembodied voice. The job perfectly complements her emotional state. She is obsessed with a married man who scarcely notices her, and she often finds herself at the mercy of strange men, including a transvestite entertainer, a North African drug dealer, and a psychiatric intern with a bondage fetish. She finally makes a connection with the man she loves, but things do not go smoothly, and she seems headed for either a breakdown or a breakthrough. Although some readers may tire of the neurotic behavior that Curiol so lovingly details, others will respond to the palpable emotional tension she creates with her short, clipped sentences and her creepy cast of characters. --Joanne Wilkinson

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