Petty Theft (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781770461529)

A hilarious romantic comedy about kleptomania and booklovers

Pascal is in a bad place. He and his longtime girlfriend have just broken up, he's got writer's block, and when he goes out for a run to ease his frazzled nerves, he falls and injures his back so badly that he's strictly forbidden from running. What's an endorphin-loving cartoonist to do? In a bid to distract himself, Pascal throws himself into his other pleasure: reading. And while at the bookstore one day, he spies a young woman picking up his own book. But then she darts out of the shop without paying. Bemused, he decides to figure out why she did it.
Petty Theft is a comedy of errors, a laugh-out-loud account of a man on a mission, and a testament to the addictiveness of book ownership. Pascal Girard intermingles an all-too-true-to-life snapshot of contemporary relationships with slapstick trials and dryly funny tribulations in this delightfully readable book.
From the award-winning author of Reunion, Petty Theft is a deftly told, finely drawn contemporary romance that will keep booklovers on the edge of their seats from the first page until the denouement.

Author: Pascal Girard
ISBN-10: 1770461523
ISBN-13: 9781770461529
Publisher: Drawn & Quarterly
Language: English
Published: 05/27/2014
Pages: 100
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.57lbs
Size: 8.37h x 5.88w x 0.43d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/17/2014
Booklist 09/15/2014 pg. 46