Crush / Frédéric Dard ; [translation, Daniel Seton].

Author
Dard, Frédéric [Browse]
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
  • London : Pushkin Vertigo, [2016]
  • ©1959
Description
156 pages ; 20 cm

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    Pushkin vertigo
    Summary note
    Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of colour, good humour and easy living in drab 1950s Léopoldville, and soon Louise is working there as a maid. But once she is under her new employers' roof their model life starts to fall apart - painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear and a dark obsession begins to grow, which will end in murder ...
    Notes
    Originally published in French as: Les scélérats. Paris : Fleuve Editions, 1959.
    Language note
    Translated from the French.
    ISBN
    • 9781782271987 ((paperback))
    • 1782271988
    LCCN
    2017286077
    OCLC
    960039758
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