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Moon in a Dead Eye: Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir
Author(s): Pascal Garnier (Author), Emily Boyce (Translator) (Author)
- Publisher: Gallic Books
- Publication Date: 12 Aug. 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 128 pages
- ISBN-10: 1908313498
- ISBN-13: 9781908313492
Book Description
Given the choice, Martial would not have moved to Les Conviviales. But Odette loved the idea of a brand-new retirement village in the south of France. So that was that. At first it feels like a terrible mistake: they’re the only residents and it’s raining non-stop. Then three neighbours arrive, the sun comes out, and life becomes far more interesting and agreeable. Until, that is, some gypsies set up camp just outside their gated community …
Editorial Reviews
Review
‘Tense, strange, disconcerting and slyly funny … richly satisfying’ — The Sunday Times
‘The final descent into violence is worthy of J G Ballard. 4 stars’ — The Independent
‘Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit.’ –The Observer
‘The final descent into violence is worthy of J G Ballard. 4 stars’ — The Independent
‘Combines a sense of the surreal with a ruthless wit.’ –The Observer
‘A master of the surreal noir thriller – Luis Buñuel meets Georges Simenon.’ –Times Literary Supplement
‘A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard’ — –Financial Times
‘Garnier (1949-2010) packs humor, insights into aging, and a darkly pessimistic assessment of mankind into this slender crime novel’ –Publishers Weekly
‘Garnier plunges you into a bizarre, overheated world, seething death, writing, fictions and philosophy. He’s a trippy, sleazy, sly and classy read.’– AL Kennedy
‘A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard’ –Financial Times
About the Author
Pascal Garnier was born in Paris in 1949. The prize-winning author of over sixty books, he remains a leading figure in contemporary French literature, in the tradition of Georges Simenon. He died in 2010.
