Young once / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Damion Searls.
By: Modiano, Patrick [author.].
Contributor(s): Searls, Damion [translator.].
Series: New York Review Books Classics.Publisher: New York : New York Review Books, [2016]Description: 156 pages ; 21 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781590179550 (paperback).Uniform titles: Jeunesse. English Subject(s): FICTION / Psychological | FICTION / Coming of Age | FICTION / LiteraryGenre/Form: Print books.Summary: "Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile's thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. They move through a Paris saturated with the crimes and secrets of the past but breathing hopes for the future; they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth"--| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| On Shelf | PQ2673.O3 J4813 2016 (Browse shelf) | Available | AU00000000011578 |
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"Originally published in French as Une jeunesse."--Title page verso.
"Odile and Louis are leading a happy, bucolic life with their two children in the French countryside near the Swiss mountains. It is Odile's thirty-fifth birthday, and Louis's thirty-fifth birthday is a few weeks away. Then the story shifts back to their early years: Louis, just freed from his military service and at loose ends, taken up by a shady character who brings him to Paris to do some work for a friend who manages a garage; Odile, an aspiring singer, at the mercy of the kindness and unkindness of strangers. They move through a Paris saturated with the crimes and secrets of the past but breathing hopes for the future; they find each other and struggle together to create what, looking back, will have been their youth"--