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Title Statement | Such fine boys / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti ; with a foreword by J.M.G. Le Clézio. |
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Series | Margellos world republic of letters book |
Author | Modiano, Patrick, 1945- |
Publication | New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press[2017]©2017 |
Extent of Item | xi, 186 pages ; |
ISBN | 030022334X (pbk.) 9780300223347 (pbk.) |
Other Number | 3237295 |
General Notes | Translations of: De si braves garçons. |
Summary | A series of exquisitely crafted stories about jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among themselves. Misfits and heroes, sports champions and good-hearted chums, the boys of Valvert misbehave, run away, get expelled, and engage in various forms of delinquency and disappearance. They emerge into adulthood tragically damaged, still tethered to their adolescent selves, powerless to escape the central loneliness of their lives in an ever-darkening spiral of self-delusion and grim consequence. |
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By Topic | Boarding schools--Fiction--France--Paris |
Loneliness--Fiction | |
Nineteen sixties--Fiction | |
Rejection (Psychology)--Fiction | |
Rich families--Fiction | |
Teenage boys--Fiction--France--Paris | |
By Location | Paris (France)--Fiction |
By Genre | Bildungsromans |