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Title: THE FLOOD
By: J. M. G. Le Clezio, Peter Green (Trans)
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0141191406
ISBN 13: 9780141191409
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Publisher: PENGUIN BOOKS LTD
Pub. date: 1 November, 2008
Pages: 304
Translated from: French
Description: Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside.
Synopsis: Francois Besson listens to a tape recording of a girl contemplating suicide. Drifting through the days in a provincial city, he thoughtlessly starts a fire in his apartment, attends confession, and examines, with great intentness but without affection, a naked woman he wakes beside. And, as Besson moves through an ugly and threatening rain, his thoughts eventually lead to violence, first turned outward and then directed languidly against himself.
Publication: UK
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Returns: Returnable
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