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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
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'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.
