Camera (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781564785220)

In this improbable love story, Toussaint creates a character who is obsessed with himself: how he does things and all the ways he might have done them, how he thinks, why he thinks the way that he thinks, how he might do or think otherwise. What happens? He takes driving lessons, goes grocery shopping, spends endless hours with an adorable employee of the driving school he attends. And though he is aloof, though caught up in his own actions and in the movement of his own thoughts--he somehow emerges as surprisingly insightful and also very funny. In Toussaint's touching novel, we come to know this character intimately and yet know almost nothing about him. These two extremes, existing together, are at the heart of Toussaint's remarkable style.

Author: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
ISBN-10: 156478522X
ISBN-13: 9781564785220
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Language: English
Published: 11/01/2008
Pages: 122
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.96h x 5.04w x 0.38d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 09/01/2008 pg. 37
Library Journal 09/15/2008 pg. 47
Booklist 10/15/2008 pg. 22
New York Times Book Review 12/14/2008 pg. 11
New York Times Book Review 12/21/2008 pg. 18