Honeymoon
(2016)

Fiction

eAudiobook

Provider: hoopla

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : Blackstone Publishing, 2016
Made available through hoopla
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION

1 online resource (1 audio file (3hr., 28 min.)) : digital

ISBN/ISSN
9781982503062 MWT19284192, 1982503068 19284192
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Read by Bronson Pinchot

Jean B. is submerged in a world where night and day, past and present have no demarcations. Having spent his entire adult life making documentary movies about lost explorers, Jean suddenly decides to abandon his wife and career and takes what seems to be a journey to nowhere. He spends his solitary days recounting or imagining the lives of Ingrid and Rigaud, a refugee couple he met more than twenty years ago. Little by little, their story takes on more reality than Jean's existence, as his excavation of the past slowly becomes an all-encompassing obsession. In Honeymoon, Patrick Modiano constructs an existential tale of suspense, longing, and of the past's hold over a shifting, ambiguous present. Barbara Wright's translation remains true to Modiano's simple, melodious prose of a born storyteller. "Brooding, philosophically rich…Trademark Modiano, brittle and elegant, with more questions than answers." "Modiano is a wonderfully evocative writer-there's a nice touch of menace throughout and the cool, collected writing feels like a salve." "A beautiful example of Modiano's fluid storytelling."

Mode of access: World Wide Web

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