Based on a True Story - Softcover

Vigan, Delphine De

Softcover

ISBN 10: 140887881X ISBN 13: 9781408878811

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

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About this title

About the Author:

Delphine de Vigan is the author of bestselling No and Me, it was awarded the Prix des Libraires in France, in Britain it was a Richard & Judy selection. Her other novels include Nothing Holds Back the Night which won the Prix FNAC and the Grand Prix des lectrices de ELLE, Underground Time was shortlisted for the Goncourt Prize in 2009. D'apres une histoire vraie is a French bestseller and has won both Le Prix Renaudot and Le Prix Goncord des Lyceens 2015. It is currently being adapted for a screenplay by Roman Polanski and Olivier Assayas. She lives in Paris. George Miller is the translator of Nothing Holds Back the Night, No and Me and Underground Time. He is also a regular translator for Le Monde diplomatique's English-language edition, and the translator of Conversations with my Gardener by Henri Cueco and Disordered World by Amin Maalouf.

Review:

A wonderful literary trompe l'ceil: a book about friendship, writing and the boundary between reality and fantasy ... Dark, smart, strange, compelling Harriet Lane, bestselling author of Her This is an addictive read. Clever, compulsive and deft. De Vigan kept me guessing to the point where I even began to question the reality of the pages in my hand. Fantastic Ann Morgan, author of Beside Myself A story that keeps the reader guessing until - and beyond - the very end ... A story of memory and friendship, a cracking page-turner and a journey into what the essence of fiction, and indeed autobiography, might be. Excellent Nicholas Searle, author of The Good Liar, shortlisted for the 2016 CWA New Blood Dagger An incredible true story of obsessive female friendship that grips until the very last mark on the very last page Denise Mina, bestselling author of the Alex Morrow series In this captivating story of imprisonment ... Delphine de Vigan intelligently questions the place of the writer in our society of imitation Le Figaro An excellent novel: malign, Machiavellian, manipulative ... This new book is a struggle to put down Parisien A dizzying, psychoanalytical story within a story ... Fascinating Le Point Delphine de Vigan teases her readers' desire for truth, and plays with the grey area between reality and fiction ... Highly convincing Le Monde Enthralling, not only brilliant in its construction - chilling, worthy of the best thrillers - but also it has a rare finesse in its constant questioning of the act of writing Page Delphine de Vigan is a sensation Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 140887881X
• ISBN 13: 9781408878811
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384