BIBLIO is the largest independent book marketplace in the world, with over 100 million books.

Skip to content

On the Ceiling

On the Ceiling

On the Ceiling
Stock photo: cover may vary

On the Ceiling Paperback - 2000

by Eric Chevillard

Add to wish list
  • New
  • Paperback
New

Description

new pb
Ask the seller a question Add to wish list
A$20.40
A$9.62 Delivery within USA
Standard delivery: 2 to 8 days
More delivery options
Ships from canonregular (Massachusetts, United States)
The BIBLIO Guarantee

Details

  • Title On the Ceiling
  • Author Eric Chevillard
  • Binding Paperback
  • Condition New
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Bison Books, Lincoln, Nebraska, U.s.a.
  • Publication date 2000-08
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 4858
  • ISBN 9780803263963
  • Quantity available 1

About canonregular Massachusetts, United States

Biblio member since 2021

Terms of Sale: 30 day return guarantee, with full refund including original shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.

Browse books from canonregular

Reader reviews for On the Ceiling

Write a review for this book

There are no reviews for this book yet. Be the first to write a review!

Your review will be anonymous unless you login or create an account first.

Overall rating
Remember: You’re rating the book as a work, not the seller or the condition of the specific copy you purchased!

Important Terms and Guidelines

  • Please focus on the book’s content and context. Also, add any personal comments as to how you enjoyed the book. Substantiate your likes and dislikes. You may make comparisons to other books.
  • Reviews must be at least 140 characters in length.
  • Please do not reveal critical plot elements.
  • This is not a help line. Contact customer support if you need help.
Your review must not include:
  • Obscenities, discriminatory language, or other insulting language not suitable for public domain
  • Advertisements, “spam” content, or references to other products, offers or websites.
  • Email addresses, URLs, phone numbers, physical addresses or other contact information.
  • Overly critical comments about other reviews or reviewers
  • Time-sensitive material (i.e. promotional tours, seminars, lectures, etc.)
  • Availability, price, or alternative ordering/shipping information

From the publisher

On the Ceiling tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named Mline, and soon he and his friends move in with her and her family. They are disappointed by the life they find at Mline's, however, and in search of something better they make the collective decision to move to the ceiling of her house, where they expect to find a more orderly, more rational, and less encumbered existence.

ric Chevillard's trademark is inventing characters who have little choice but to dream up the most hopelessly outlandish and breathtakingly brilliant schemes if they are to survive the rigors of their existence. He is fascinated by the imperious need we all feel to make life bearable and by the lengths to which we are willing to go in that pursuit. The characters in On the Ceiling are prepared to go rather further than most of us. Chevillard, one of the most inventive young authors on the French literary scene, is the author of eight novels.

From the rear cover

ON THE CEILING tells the story of a young man who wears a chair upside down on his head. He falls in love with a young woman named Meline, and soon he and his friends move in with her and her family. They are disappointed by the life they find at Meline's, however, and in search of something better they make the collective decision to move to the ceiling of her house, where they expect to find a more orderly, more rational, and less encumbered existence.

Media reviews

Citations

  • Publishers Weekly, 08/28/2000, Page 57

About the author

Jordan Stump is associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska. He is the author of Naming and Unnaming: On Raymond Queneau and the translator of four novels by Marie Redonnet--Htel Splendid, Forever Valley, Rose Mellie Rose, and Nevermore--and of ric Chevillard's The Crab Nebula and Patrick Modiano's Out of the Dark (all available from the University of Nebraska Press).

Please wait a moment while we load the requested page.

tracking-