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The
2004 Award
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Desolation
by Yasmina Reza |
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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| He
has had a full life. Now, in his later years, retired, his second wife getting
on his nerves, his love affairs a distant - yet piquant - memory, there
are a few things he wants to get off his chest. One man's hilarious, heartrending
ruminations, addressed to a son he cannot understand, make up this extraordinary
first novel from the author of Art. As he talks, we are introduced to his too-happy wife, Nancy; his housekeeper, Mrs. Dacimiento (who still can't fit the bag properly over the rim of the rubbish bin); his reassuringly anguished friend Lionel; his daughter and her husband, an enthusiastic member of the Jewish Ramblers; and Marisa Botton, his idiotic, irresistible mistress. Until finally a chance encounter with an old friend, and a story she tells, lead him to his final overtures… Surprising, dark and achingly funny. a novel in defence of a life lived passionately. |
| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Yasmina Reza is the author of a number of plays, including The Unexpected Man, Conversations after a Burial, Life x 3 and the award-winning Art. She has also written a collection of autobiographical sketches, Hammerklavier. She lives in France. |
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