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Underground Time
by de Vigan, Delphine
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- Paperback
- Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 1608197123
- ISBN 13
- 9781608197125
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Lukeville , Arizona, United States
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About This Item
New York, Bloomsbury, 2011, trade paperback, 257 pp, Advance Reading Copy (ARC), New. Straight, tight and clean in stiff, pictorial card covers, slight bump to top corner. Award-winning author, de Vigan follows her best-seller No and Me with this poetic and resiliently humorous study of urban isolation. Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt. Translated from the French by George Miller. ISBN 9781608197125
Synopsis
Everyday Mathilde takes the Metro, then the commuter train to the office of a large multi-national where she works in the marketing department. Every day, the same routine, the same trains. But something happened a while ago - she dared to voice a different opinion from her moody boss, Jacques. Bit by bit she finds herself frozen out of everything, with no work to do. Thibault is a paramedic. Every day he drives to the addresses he receives from his controller. The city spares him no grief: traffic jams, elusive parking spaces, delivery trucks blocking his route. He is well aware that he may be the only human being many of the people he visits will see for the entire day and is well acquainted with the symptomatic illnesses, the major disasters, the hustle and bustle and, of course, the immense, pervading loneliness of the city. Before one day in May, Mathilde and Thibault had never met. They were just two anonymous figures in a crowd, pushed and shoved and pressured continuously by the loveless, urban world. Underground Time is a novel of quiet violence - the violence of office-bullying, the violence of the brutality of the city - in which our two characters move towards an inevitable meeting. 'Two solitary existences cross paths in this poignant chronicle, a new testimony to de Vigan's superb eloquence.' - Lire
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- Seller
- West of Eden Books
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 8686
- Title
- Underground Time
- Author
- de Vigan, Delphine
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- Not Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Advance Reading Copy (ARC)
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 1608197123
- ISBN 13
- 9781608197125
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Usa
- Place of Publication
- Ny
- This edition first published
- 2011-11
- Keywords
- Businesswomen; Emergency medical technicians; Fiction; France; General; Literary; World Literature
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