Low Heights (eBook)

Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir

Pascal Garnier (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
192 Seiten
Pushkin Vertigo (Verlag)
978-1-80533-611-2 (ISBN)

Infos

Vultures at least have the decency to wait until their prey is dead before they rip it to pieces . . .At the home in the mountains he shares with his put-upon nurse, Thérèse, cantankerous retiree Édouard Lavenant is attempting to write his memoirs when a visitor calls, claiming to be his long-lost son. Jean-Baptiste's presence seems to bring about a softening of Édouard's temper, but the family reunion is soon threatened by the local vultures circling overhead . . .

Autor

Pascal Garnier, who died in March 2010, was a talented novelist, short story writer, children's author and painter. From his home in the mountains of the Ardèche, he wrote fiction in a noir palette with a cast of characters drawn from ordinary provincial life. Though his writing is often very dark in tone, it sparkles with quirkily beautiful imagery and dry wit. Garnier's work has been likened to the great thriller writer, Georges Simenon.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 1.1.2025
• Übersetzer: Melanie Florence
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Historische Romane
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Märchen / Sagen
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: aging • cantankerous • character-driven narrative • Contemporary literature • Dark comedy • Drama • Emotional complexity • family reunion • family secrets • father-son dynamics • generational conflict • Humor • Identity • life reflections • literary fiction • Memoirs • mountain life • nursing care • Pascal Garnier • Personal Growth • psychological depth • relationships • retiree • rural setting • social themes • unexpected connections • Unexpected Visitors • vultures
• ISBN-10: 1-80533-611-8 / 1805336118
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80533-611-2 / 9781805336112