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Mygale / by Thierry Jonquet ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith.
LIBRA PQ2670.O53 M9413 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jonquet, Thierry.
- Standardized Title:
- Mygale.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 129 pages ; 19 cm
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco : City Lights Books, [2002]
- Summary:
- "Mygale" [MIG-uh-lee] n.: a genus of large tropical spiders. . . .
- Richard Lafargue, a well-known plastic surgeon, pursues and captures Vincent Moreau, who raped Lafargue's daughter and left her hopelessly mad in an asylum. Lafargue is determined to exact an atrocious vengeance, and an ambiguous, even sadomasochistic relationship develops between self-appointed executioner and victim.
- "Great art in nightmarish darkness." -- Michel Lebrun
- Thierry Jonquet (b. 1954, Paris) is an exponent of the hardboiled style of French noir that is inflected by postMay 1968 politics and social critique. His crime novels and children's books have garnered many literary prizes.
- ISBN:
- 087286409X
- OCLC:
- 50124701
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