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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Le soupirant

Le soupirant

Minière, Isabelle

Paperback

Literary Fiction

ISBN10: 2709621851
ISBN13: 9782709621854
Publisher: Editions J.C. Lattes
Published: Feb 21 2022
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.52
Height: 0.44 Width: 5.32 Depth: 8.47
Language: French
In this first novel, whose basic theme is a search for identity, Isabelle Minière deftly weaves contrasting images and turns a death-bed scene into light comedy.

Chatter before a funeral. On his fiftieth birthday, father has a stroke and the whole family finds themselves at the hospital, gathered around his bed. He has been ill for so long, that everyone wonders if this time will be the last. His daughter Elodie really couldn't care less. She contemplates what she'll wear at the funeral. Maybe the red shoes her mother hates ? She never really loved her mother anyway, and there she goes again, telling her life story to anyone who will listen and half of it lies, her childhood, her youth, her marriage.. Enough is enough ! Elodie escapes the hospital room - where her brother and sister are moaning to the tune of their father's labored breathing - to check out a handsome intern. Her own memories are coming to surface, how she found a job and how her boss who had lost her own daughter - decided Elodie would take her place. Back in the hospital room, it looks like her father has finally crossed over to the other side.

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