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03: A Novel

03: A Novel

Valtat, Jean-Christophe

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RomanceGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $15.00

ISBN10: 0374100217
ISBN13: 9780374100216
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: Jun 22 2010
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.23
Height: 0.28 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.08
Language: English

From the bus stop across the street, it was hard to tell, but suddenly I understood, seeing the passengers in the van that picked her up every morning, that she was slightly retarded.

A precocious teenager in a French suburb finds himself powerfully, troublingly drawn to the girl he sees every day on the way to school. As he watches and thinks about her, his daydreams--full of lyrics from Joy Division and the Smiths, fairy tales, Flowers for Algernon, sexual desire and fear, loneliness, rage for escape, impatience to grow up--reveal an entire adolescence. And this fleeting erotic obsession, remembered years later, blossoms into a meditation on what it means to be a smart kid, what it means to be dumb, and what it means to be in love with another person.

03 is a book about young love like none you have ever read. It marks the English-language debut of a unique French writer--one of the great stylists of his generation.

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