It felt like the slipknot on a rope round my chest was being tightened without pity Trouble is the last thing Albert needs. Travelling back to his childhood home on Christmas Eve to mourn his mother's death, he finds the loneliness and nostalgia of his Parisian quartier unbearable... Until, that evening, he encounters a beautiful, seemingly innocent woman at a brasserie, and his spirits are lifted. Still, something about the woman disturbs him. Where is the father of her child? And what are those two red stains on her sleeve? When she invites him back to her apartment, Albert thinks he's in luck. But a monstrous scene awaits them, and he finds himself lured into the darkness against his better judgment. Unravelling like a paranoid nightmare, Bird in a Cage melds existentialist drama with thrilling noir to tell the story of a man trapped in a prison of his own making.
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Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 02 Jun 2016
Publisher: Pushkin Press
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9781782271994
About Frederic Dard
Frédéric Dard (1921-2000) was one of the best known and loved French crime writers of the twentieth century. Enormously prolific he wrote hundreds of thrillers suspense stories plays and screenplays throughout his long and illustrious career. The Wicked Go to Hell Crush and The Executioner Weeps (for which he won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière) will also be published by Pushkin Vertigo. David Bellos is an English translator and biographer. His translations include several of Georges Simenon's Maigret novels as well as Paul Fournel's Dear Reader published by Pushkin Press. He has also written biographies of Perec Jacques Tati and Romain Gary and an introduction to translation Is That a Fish in Your Ear? Translation and the Meaning of Everything.
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