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- ISBN 9781961341050
- Weight: 95g
- Dimensions: 127 x 215mm
- Publication Date: 04 Jul 2024
- Publisher: McNally Jackson Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn’t have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she’d vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he’d never met.
Here is the unlikely but true account of how one man got over a broken heart, regained his faith in literature, participated - by mistake - in a work of performance art, threw away his turtlenecks, spent his rent money on a 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank, and fell in love again. Named one of the year’s best books by Slate and the San Francisco Chronicle when it first appeared in English, The Mystery Guest is a “darkly hilarious . . . odyssey . . . that wends its loopy way toward yes” (O, the Oprah Magazine).
Grégoire Bouillier was born in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, and raised in Paris. A former editor of the magazine Science et Vie, he is the author of four works of autobiography, including Report on Myself and Le Dossier M. Having worked as a painter and journalist, he published his first memoir,The Mystery Guest, when he was forty years old.
Ben Truman was born in London. He currently divides his time between New York and Bruges.
