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The gravediggers' bread / Frédéric Dard ; translated by Melanie Florence.
Van Pelt Library PQ2607.A558 P35613 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dard, Frédéric, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Pain des fossoyeurs. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Gravediggers--Fiction.
- Gravediggers.
- Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
- Man-woman relationships.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Noir fiction.
- Novels.
- Physical Description:
- 157 pages ; 20 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London : Pushkin Vertigo, 2018.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French.
- Summary:
- "Blaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise.A chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office and Blaise is hooked - he realizes he'll do anything to stay by her side, and soon finds himself working for her husband, a funeral director. But the tension in this strange love triangle begins to mount, and eventually results in a highly unorthodox burial..."--Publisher's description.
- Notes:
- "The Gravediggers' Bread was first published as Le Pain des fossoyeurs in Paris in 1956"--Title page verso.
- ISBN:
- 9781782272014
- 1782272011
- OCLC:
- 1046067166
- Publisher Number:
- 99981823145
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