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At eighty, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier. His two grown-up children live abroad with their own families, his son in Bolivia, his daughter in Japan: he writes awkwardly to his daughter with the news of his humdrum activities and tells her that he's decided to have his wife's portrait committed to paper or canvas, permanently and posthumously. So, he looks up ?Artists' in the Yellow Pages, picks a few for arbitrary reasons, and calls them up. He asks each if they will paint a portrait of his wife, using his five favourite photographs of her for their sole visual reference. One artist - successful and modish - intimidates him; another - an amateur raising kids by herself - prompts him to pity; a pair of art students baffle him; and a bridge-playing acquaintance turns out to have elderly hots for him. Each encounter, each portrait, is both comic and moving, like Max. As these accumulate, the reader comes to realise that Max's grasp on who his wife really was is not so sure after all. The book oscillates calmly between being amusing and being reflective, and delivers a powerful slow punch at its close.
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- ÉditeurFlamingo
- Date d'édition2001
- ISBN 10 0007100914
- ISBN 13 9780007100910
- ReliureBroché
- Nombre de pages176
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Five Photos of My Wife
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Flamingo
(2001)
ISBN 10 : 0007100914
ISBN 13 : 9780007100910
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Description du livre Etat : Very Good. At 80, Max Opass is still reeling from the death of his wife a year earlier . He decides to have his wife's portrait painted from his favourite photogr aphs of her and picks five arbritary phone numbers under "artists". The sto ry follows Max's comical and moving encounters with the artists. From the Publisher Five Photos of My Wife, the first of Agnes Desarthe's books to be translated into English, has been shortlisted for both the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2002 and the Jewish Quarterly Fiction Prize 2002. N° de réf. du vendeur RWARE0000007832
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Five Photos of My Wife
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ISBN 10 : 0007100914
ISBN 13 : 9780007100910
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Description du livre Trade Paperback. Etat : Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition. Type: Ex-Library Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N° de réf. du vendeur 008598
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