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COM.ONIXSUITE.9780872864092 03 01 City Lights Books 01 GCOI 87286100755910 02 087286409X 03 9780872864092 15 9780872864092 BC 1 A01 Jonquet, Thierry Thierry Jonquet Thierry Jonquet (b. 1954, Paris) has sold soap, painted white lines on the road, taught juvenile delinquents and worked in geriatric hospitals as an occupational therapist. Jonquet is an exponent of the hardboiled style of French noir that is inflected by post-May 1968 politics and social critique. His main source of inspiration is the daily newspaper, a trove of anecdotal evidence of, in his words, "the barbarity of the world we live in." But his writing is not so much politically engagé as cathartic. Jonquet’s crime novels and children's books have garnered many literary prizes. 2 B06 Nicholson-Smith, Donald Donald Nicholson-Smith Donald Nicholson-Smith</b> has translated many works of fiction and nonfiction from the French, including <i>The Society of the Spectacle</i> by Guy Debord, <i>The Production of Space</i> by Henri Lefebvre, <i>The Revolution of Everyday Life</i> by Raoul Vaneigem, and <i>Three to Kill</i> by Jean-Patrick Manchette. 01 eng 120 00 120 03 03 0 03 24 Internet CL Hierarchy European Writing 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Fiction 24 Internet CL Hierarchy Literature in Translation 01 <P><em><strong>This unsettling novel inspired Pedro Almodovar's acclaimed new film </strong></em><em><strong>"The Skin I Live In." Movie premieres in the U.S October 2011.<br /> </strong></em></p> <P>* * *</p> <P></p> <P></p> <P></p> <P></p> <P><em><strong> </strong></em></p> <P><em>Mygale</em> [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . .</p> <P>Richard Lafargue, a well-known plastic surgeon, pursues and captures Vincent Moreau, who raped Lafargue's daughter and left her hopelessly mad in an asylum. Lafargue is determined to exact an atrocious vengeance, and an ambiguous, even sadomasochistic relationship develops between self-appointed executioner and victim.</p> <P>"'Ingenious,' 'elegant,' 'sinister' – these are also adjectives that approximate, but fall short of, the narrative power of Mygale. Much like Poe's 'tales of terror,' <em>Mygale</em> is a story that invites both respect and repulsion: As a reader, you're happy to have read it . . . and just as happy, ultimately, to close the covers on its weird world." --Maureen Corrigan, <em>Washington Post Book World</em></p> <P>"Great art in nightmarish darkness." --Michel Lebrun</p> <P><strong>Thierry Jonquet </strong>(b. 1954, Paris) is an exponent of the hardboiled style of French noir that is inflected by post-May 1968 politics and social critique. His crime novels and children's books have garnered many literary prizes.<strong><br /> </strong></p> 02 Mygale [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . . Richard Lafargue, a well-known plastic surgeon, pursues and captures Vincent Moreau, who raped Lafargue's daughter and left her hopelessly mad in an asylum. Lafargue is determined to... 08 "Great art in nightmarish darkness." Michel Lebrun 08 "'Ingenious,' 'elegant,' 'sinister' – these are also adjectives that approximate, but fall short of, the narrative power of <i>Mygale</i>. Much like Poe's 'tales of terror,' <i>Mygale</i> is a story that invites both respect and repulsion: As a reader, you're happy to have read it... and just as happy, ultimately, to close the covers on its weird world." Maureen Corrigan, <i>The Washington Post Book World</i> 08 "More Jim Thompson that Raymond Chandler, Jonquet's prose is rough hewn, the panache is all in <i>Mygale</i>'s bizarre setup, gruesome scenarios and genderbending ending." <i>St. Petersberg Times</i> 04 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100755910/images/87286100755910L.jpg 07 03 72 01 http://www.citylights.com/resources/titles/87286100755910/images/87286100755910S.jpg http://www.citylights.com/book/?GCOI=87286100755910 City Lights Publishers 01 City Lights Publishers 20030101 01 7.25 in 02 5 in 08 16 oz City Lights Books 01 WORLD 20 20030101 01 02 13.95 USD