Soft in the Head
A humorous, heartwarming story follows the intellectually dim-witted 45-year-old Germain as he meets and slowly gets to know 85-year-old Margueritte, who sits in the park every day watching the pigeons and reading. She speaks to him as an equal, something his friends rarely do, and reads to him,...
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A humorous, heartwarming story follows the intellectually dim-witted 45-year-old Germain as he meets and slowly gets to know 85-year-old Margueritte, who sits in the park every day watching the pigeons and reading. She speaks to him as an equal, something his friends rarely do, and reads to him, sparking in him a previously undiscovered interest in books and reading. When she reveals to Germain that she is starting to lose her eyesight to macular degeneration, he is inspired for the first time in his life to work at reading so that he can read fluently to his new friend.
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Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9781782271581 (1782271589)
ASIN: 1782271589
Publish date: 2016-06-28
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
What an amazing read! I loved the relationships that were inside this novel. There were a wide variety of them, all of them significant and many of them changing during the course of the novel. The novel contained compassionate relationships, mangled ones, loving connections and relationships that w...
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