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Robert Laffont
EAN : 9782221192795
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 342
Size : 135 x 215 mm
The Law of the Peak

Release date : 18/08/2016
A scathing, hilarious novel about thirty years of life in France (1988-2015)
Paris, 1988. Jérôme Vatrigan, age 23, lands the Prix Goncourt, France’s most eminent literary prize, for his very first novel. He meets a young journalist, Greta Violante, and marries her. Transformed by her monumental ambition, Greta becomes an all-powerful business advisor. Antoine, Jérôme’s brother, is a plastic surgeon with political... Paris, 1988. Jérôme Vatrigan, age 23, lands the Prix Goncourt, France’s most eminent literary prize, for his very first novel. He meets a young journalist, Greta Violante, and marries her. Transformed by her monumental ambition, Greta becomes an all-powerful business advisor. Antoine, Jérôme’s brother, is a plastic surgeon with political ideals. Jérôme, far from such aspirations, becomes an editor. His relationship doesn’t really exist, but strangely, he and hiw wife stay together. In their separate paths, they are like planets: far apart and yet dependent on each other. They live in an atmosphere of lies, in which all kinds of faslifiers can nourish their greatest ambitions.
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EAN : 9782221192795
Shaping : BROCHE
Pages : 342
Size : 135 x 215 mm
Robert Laffont