Desolation by Reza, Yasmina

Desolation (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375724725)

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Format: Paperback
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Desolation by Reza, Yasmina

Desolation

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Desolation by Reza, Yasmina

Desolation

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Format: Paperback
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Samuel Perlman, the elderly narrator of Yasmina Reza's deliriously dyspeptic novel, is surrounded by happy people. His wife Nancy is thrilled to be a member of the human race. His grown son is content crisscrossing the world to "sample exotic fruit with the savages." But Samuel himself refuses to be happy and his attempt to explain his refusal (half to his son and half to himself) generates an epic, blasphemous, and hilarious rant against the compromises of his life.

Whether he is recounting his pal Lionel's heroic battle against impotence; lamenting the loss of his great love, the irresistible Marisa Botton; or pondering the possibility of a new love in the person of one Genevieve Abramowitz, the droll, irascible Perlman is one of the great talkers of contemporary fiction. And Desolation is one of the most dazzling performances ever written for one voice.

Author: Yasmina Reza
ISBN-10: 0375724729
ISBN-13: 9780375724725
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/14/2003
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.34lbs
Size: 8.24h x 4.96w x 0.41d
By Yasmina Reza
By Yasmina Reza
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Yasmina Reza is a playwright and novelist whose plays have all been multi-award-winning critical and popular international successes, translated in more than thirty languages. Her plays include Conversations After a Burial, The Passage of Winter, Art (which was awarded a Tony in 1999), The Unexpected Man, and Life ? 3. She is also the author of a translation of Kafka's Metamorphosis, a novel, Hammerklavier, and a film, Lulu Kreutz's Picnic. She lives in Paris.

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