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Bored and totally disillusioned, Michel Soler stifles in his small, hot apartment, waiting for the right moment to commit suicide, until he is offered five thousand dollars for kidnapping a young boy named Simon, an offer that plunges him into a web of intrigue
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Stylish and sexy, this French novel could be termed an existential detective thriller. Michel Soler, a suicidal music critic and shoplifter in Lyon, swings between murderous rages and tender effusions. Out of boredom he accepts $5000 as down payment to kidnap 10-year-old Simon, son of a quadriplegic colonel. As ransom Michel demands to sleep with the boy's sister, Michele, a pianist; they fall madly in love. When Simon is snatched away again, Michel turns amateur private eye to track down the new kidnappers. Pieces of the jigsaw include a wealthy Bolivian couple, a Spanish ophthalmologist who has mysteriously vanished, a nubile hitchhiker and a reclusive German pianist with one finger missing, whose memoirs Michel is compiling. Although the narration is heavy with existential baggage, Belletto's Gallic wit and deft literary style keep the reader turning the pages to the shocking, unforeseeable, tragic denoument.
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Eclipse
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Mercury House, San Francisco, 1990
ISBN 10: 0916515648
ISBN 13: 9780916515645
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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st US. Smaller, sturdy book, black cloth spine, dark blue boards, bright bronze lettering on spine, 312 pages. DJ glossy and colorfully designed, an archway in shades of purple showing a person in a room with orange walls at center front, purple archway on back with praise from Times Literary Supplement, Le Figaro, Elle and others, orange down spine middle. DJ has very tiny tear with light crease at top front tip and nearby edge, light wear at bottom front tip, very slight wear to spine edges, 1/4" and micronick at top back edge. Good+ DJ/Very Fine book. Seller Inventory # 12815