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Avant Pendant Apres
Paperback
ISBN13: 9782234059665
Publisher: Stock
Published: Nov 8 2021
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.32 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
Rights sold to: Estonia (Pegasus), Italy (Bompiani), Korea (Tornado), Norway (Engelstad), Vietnam (Bach Viet)
The first time I saw her, it was from behind. I loved her immediately. And I knew that when she turned around it would be worse.
During a party, on a balcony, a man meets a young woman. This encounter changes his life completely. He is a song writer who, so far, only knew love in the form of lyrics. Now he will experience love himself. The incredible magic of the beginnings. Pleasure that he never thought could exist. Doubts, worries. The threat that others - false friends and real lovers - come to represent. The psychology of love. Fantasies. Pornography. The inaptitude of masculinity. Jealousy. Dependency and humiliation. Breaking up and the misery of being rejected. To experience absolute grief and grow out of it - which does not mean one forgets. Because it is an unforgettable story, for the one who lived through it as well as for the reader. Few have gone so far in the depiction of love between a man and a woman.
Jean-Marc Parisis was born in 1962. he published La Mélancolie des fast foods (1987), Le Lycée des artistes (1992) and Depuis toute la vie (2000) with Grasset. He is also the author of a biography of Jean-Marc Reiser. Coming after Physique, published in January 2005, Avant, pendant, après is his second novel with Stock.
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