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The Erotic Potential of My Wife
Author(s): David Foenkinos (Author)
- Publisher: Telegram Books
- Publication Date: 1 Sept. 2008
- Language: English
- Print length: 157 pages
- ISBN-10: 1846590450
- ISBN-13: 9781846590450
Book Description
Having collected, among other things, cocktail sticks, electoral campaign badges, paintings of moored ships, rabbits’ feet, noises at five in the morning, Croatian maxims, staircase ornaments, the first pages of novels, the labels on melons, birds’ eggs, moments with you, hangmen’s nooses, Hector finally falls in love. It’s the way she washes windows that does it for him. And so begins his new infatuation, a collection (and recollection) of beautifully observed moments spent observing his wife’s every move. A stirring portrayal of erotic obsession and its whims.
Editorial Reviews
Review
“How can anyone resist it? It’s light, quick, funny and unlike anything else.” –Le Figaro
“Absurd, funny, eccentric … this little world has seduced critics, filmmakers and an ever-larger public.” –Le Monde
“David Foenkinos is in a league of his own. If we had to find his counterparts on the world stage, they would be Philip Roth and Thomas Pynchon.” –Elle
About the Author
David Foenkinos was born in 1974 and has published three novels to date. The Erotic Potential is the first to be translated into English. He is the author of ‘Delicacy’ (La Délicatesse), now a major motion picture, starring Audrey Tautou.
