{"product_id":"henri-duchemin-and-his-shadows-emmanuel-bove-9781590178324","title":"Henri Duchemin and His Shadows","description":"An NYRB Classics Original \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEmmanuel Bove was one of the most original writers to come out of twentieth-century France and a popular success in his day. Discovered by Colette, who arranged for the publication of his first novel, \u003ci\u003eMy Friends\u003c\/i\u003e, Bove enjoyed a busy literary career, until the German occupation silenced him. During his lifetime, his novels and stories were admired by Rilke, the surrealists, Camus, and Beckett, who said of him that \"more than anyone else he has an instinct for the essential detail.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eHenry Duchemin and His Shadows\u003c\/i\u003e is the ideal introduction to Bove's world, with its cast of stubborn isolatoes who call to mind Melville's Bartleby, Walser's \"little men,\" and Rhys's lost women. Henri Duchemin, the protagonist of the collection's first story, \"Night Crime,\" is ambivalent, afraid of appearing ridiculous, desperate for money: in other words, the perfect prey. Criminals, beautiful women, and profiteers threaten the sad young men of Bove's stories, but worse yet are the interior voices and paranoia that propel them to their fates. The poet of the flophouse and the dive, the park bench and the pigeon's crumb, Bove is also a deeply empathetic writer for whom no defeat is so great as to silence desire.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emmanuel Bove\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1590178327\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781590178324\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New York Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/11\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 160\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 06\/08\/2015","brand":"Emmanuel Bove","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46867082903807,"sku":"9781590178324","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_c3ede347-850b-445a-bdb7-60bd2117c277.jpg?v=1747453847","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/henri-duchemin-and-his-shadows-emmanuel-bove-9781590178324","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}