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03: A Novel Paperback - 2010

by Jean-Christophe Valtat; Mitzi Angel (Translator)

A precocious teenager in a French suburb finds himself powerfully, troublingly drawn to the girl he sees every day on the way to school. As he watches and thinks about her, his daydreams reveal an entire adolescence.


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From the bus stop across the street, it was hard to tell, but suddenly I understood, seeing the passengers in the van that picked her up every morning, that she was slightly retarded. A precocious teenager in a French suburb finds himself powerfully, troublingly drawn to the girl he sees every day on the way to school. As he watches and thinks about her, his daydreams--full of lyrics from Joy Division and the Smiths, fairy tales, Flowers for Algernon, sexual desire and fear, loneliness, rage for escape, impatience to grow up--reveal an entire adolescence. And this fleeting erotic obsession, remembered years later, blossoms into a meditation on what it means to be a smart kid, what it means to be dumb, and what it means to be in love with another person. 03 is a book about young love like none you have ever read. It marks the English-language debut of a unique French writer--one of the great stylists of his generation.

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  • Title 03: A Novel
  • Author Jean-Christophe Valtat; Mitzi Angel (Translator)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition. F
  • Pages 90
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl, New York City, NY
  • Date 2010-06-01
  • ISBN 9780374100216 / 0374100217
  • Weight 0.23 lbs (0.10 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.08 x 5.62 x 0.28 in (20.52 x 14.27 x 0.71 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Teenage girls, Love stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010012616
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Entertainment Weekly, 07/30/2010, Page 79
  • Kirkus Reviews, 04/15/2010, Page 0
  • New Yorker (The), 09/06/2010, Page 81
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/31/2010, Page 0

About the author

Jean-Christophe Valtat teaches comparative literature at Clermont-Ferrand University. He is the author of two novels and a story collection. Mitzi Angel is the publisher of Faber and Faber, Inc.

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