The Foundling Boy - Couverture souple

Deon, Michel

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908313560 ISBN 13 : 9781908313560

Editeur : Gallic Books, 2013

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Quiet, wryly funny prose ... a delight --Independent on Sunday

Remarkable ... Rooted in 19th-century realism but profoundly subversive of its conventions ... Deserves a place alongside Flaubert's Sentimental Education and Le Grand Meaulnes. --New Statesman

A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... Leaves you feeling better about life --The Spectator

Inspired by Henry Fielding's 18th-century novel Tom Jones, about a similarly clueless but likable character making his way on the road of life. As witty as its English forebear but with French savoir-faire, The Foundling Boy may win new readers for books translated from French. --New York Times

A big-hearted coming-of-age shaggy-dog story ... Leaves you feeling better about life --The Spectator

Présentation de l'éditeur :

It is 1919. On a summer's night in Normandy, a new-born baby is left in a basket outside the home of Albert and Jeanne Arnaud. The childless couple take the foundling in, name him Jean, and decide to raise him as their own, though his parentage remains a mystery. Though Jean's life is never dull, he grows up knowing little of what lies beyond his local area. Until the day he sets off on his bicycle to discover the world, and encounters a Europe on the threshold of interesting times...

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Gallic Books
• Date d'édition: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1908313560
• ISBN 13: 9781908313560
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 416