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EAN : 9782260029885
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 198
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Stop with Your Lies

Release date : 05/01/2017
Number 1 Bestseller - 90,000 copies sold - Throughout the autobiographical account of a love affair from his youth, Philippe Besson stages a tenacious fight between truth and lies.
While passing through the area in which he grew up, the narrator, who is none other than the author himself, glimpses a face and is struck by its resemblance to his first love. What follows is he account of the meeting, twenty-five years earlier, of two teenagers. Their attraction is... While passing through the area in which he grew up, the narrator, who is none other than the author himself, glimpses a face and is struck by its resemblance to his first love. What follows is he account of the meeting, twenty-five years earlier, of two teenagers. Their attraction is immediate. Their clandestine embraces occur in a sense of awe tainted with guilt and denial. The
secret that surrounds them only adds to the intensity. But Thomas is incapable of accepting who he is and disappears. As Philippe Besson’s first foray into memoir,“Stop with Your Lies” nderlines at what point the choice for truth can reveal heroism, and brings the dreadful realization of how difficult it is to be yourself in certain social or familial contexts.
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EAN : 9782260029885
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 198
Size : 130 x 205 mm
Julliard