The Snow Was Black
Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780451027009 (0451027000)
Publish date: January 1st 1960
Publisher: Penguin
Edition language: English
Category:
Novels,
History,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Mystery,
Crime,
Noir,
France,
World War II,
Belgian
What do it think? I think I'd do this book no justice by trying to review it. Instead I'll just point anyone to Vollman's afterword if they are interested in the book, that man knows what he is talking about.
Wow. An incredible journey that takes the main character Frank from self-destruction to redemption. Frank, is an 18 year old, in an occupied country during WWII. He lives with his mother in a whorehouse and spends his time with thuggish losers. He's angry and without direction and so starts on a co...
- Ladies and gentlemen, watch carefully. Here's Frank, a young punk who lives in his mother's brothel in occupied France. He lies, drinks, steals, does black market business with the German officers, commits murder just for fun. Yes, feel free to touch him, he fucks his mother's girls every night wh...
To be hones, I expected more out of this book. It could be that I overhyped it in my mind which I do have a tendency to do with some authors and/or books...but I would def. seek out more from this author or reread this to see if i changed my mind!
One of Simenon's more thoughtful stand-alones, asking questions about how someone truly depraved can approach redemption.
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