The Widower
As a chld Bernard Jeantet had been called clubfooted: petiently he had trained himself to mask his disability. Now a painstaking, meticulous free-lance designer, he has been married for eight years, but there are no children. His wife, Jeanne, was a prostitute: he had rescues her one night when...
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As a chld Bernard Jeantet had been called clubfooted: petiently he had trained himself to mask his disability. Now a painstaking, meticulous free-lance designer, he has been married for eight years, but there are no children. His wife, Jeanne, was a prostitute: he had rescues her one night when her ponce slashed her with a knife in the street outside his flat. He supposed
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 144
Edition language: English
This isn't really a crime novel, unlike Simenon's other romans durs I've read. But it is the same fleet, finely tuned writing that says so much more about isolation and alienation than what appears on the page. Jeantet's carefully constructed life begins to crack when he arrives home to find his wif...
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