"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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"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.
Imprint | Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl |
Country of origin | United States |
Release date | June 2010 |
Availability | Expected to ship within 10 - 15 working days |
First published | June 2010 |
Authors | Jean-Christophe Valtat |
Translators | Mitzi Angel |
Dimensions | 190 x 126 x 7mm (L x W x T) |
Format | Paperback - Trade |
Pages | 84 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-374-10021-6 |
Barcode | 9780374100216 |
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LSN | 0-374-10021-7 |