Three Bedrooms in Manhattan (New York Review Books Classics)
Format: kindle
ASIN: B005YOCQ68
Publish date: November 23rd 2011
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Pages no: 180
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Literature,
European Literature,
Cultural,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
New York,
France,
French Literature,
International,
Belgium,
Belgian
A very strange and uneven Simenon. At first, the premise is intriguing: a man, François Combe, leaves his flat due to the noise his neighbor and his neighbor’s odd guest make. How Simenon handles city life—and here, more especially, the pulse and feel of Manhattan—is very acute in the opening scenes...