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'EVERY MODEL FAMILY SHOULD HAVE A FUCK-UP: A FAMILY WITHOUT A FUCK-UP IS NOT TRULY A FAMILY ...'So begins the story of Uncle, one of life's most accomplished under-achievers. A morose bachelor squashed between the legacy of a dozen futile jobs and his mother's endless disapproval, Uncle remains alive to the possibility that - with a little help from booze, sex and writing - life might offer something more meaningful.Caustic, comic and gleefully honest, Mammals is a tale of deliverance from the dregs of a shabby modern age.
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Pierre Merot was born in Paris forty-something years ago. Mammals is his fourth novel and tells the story of the life of a man born in Paris forty-something years ago.
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Mérot, in his first English translation, is romantic and dark, with a weakness for the well-turned paradox ("Psychoanalysis teaches you one vital lesson: it teaches you that seeing a psychoanalyst is pointless...") and the surrealistic metaphor (coming into Poland in the winter, the protagonist sees "snow with white vodka claws"). Mérot's novel centers on an overeducated, underemployed 40-something man known as "the uncle," for his role as the black sheep of a model family. The story line strings together the uncle's life in episodes involving alcoholism (eight pints per evening and counting), marriage (unsuccessful), cohabitation (with a woman reminiscent of his childhood fantasy, Cruella de Ville), odd jobs (in various contemptable venues, including "Walt Disney College"), and the sadness of ending up at 40 with a small apartment and a large belly. While the protagonist is a man, Mérot's novel invokes the most bitter of chick lit, capturing the pessimism characteristic of the unlucky-in-love working-gal heroine: "The more mediocre the times, the greater the disappointment." Though it takes some missteps, Mérot's American debut should please casual fiction readers and Francophiles alike. (May)
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- PublisherCanongate Books Ltd
- Publication date2006
- ISBN 10 1841955833
- ISBN 13 9781841955834
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages224
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