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Such Fine Boys

Such Fine Boys

Modiano Patrick
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Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano’s spellbinding tale of adolescent schoolmates and the vicissitudes of fate.

As a boarding school student in the early 1960s, Patrick Modiano lived among the troubled teenage sons of wealthy but self-involved parents. In this mesmerizing novel, Modiano weaves together a series of exquisitely crafted stories about such jettisoned boys at the exclusive Valvert School on the outskirts of Paris: abandoned children of privilege, left to create new family ties among themselves. Misfits and heroes, sports champions and good-hearted chums, the boys of Valvert misbehave, run away, get expelled, and engage in various forms of delinquency and disappearance. They emerge into adulthood tragically damaged, still tethered to their adolescent selves, powerless to escape the central loneliness of their lives in an ever-darkening spiral of self-delusion and grim consequence.

 A meditation on nostalgia, the pitfalls of privilege, and the vicissitudes of...

Year:
2017
Publisher:
Yale University Press
Language:
english
Pages:
135
ISBN 10:
030022334X
ISBN 13:
9780300223347
Series:
The Margellos World Republic of Letters
File:
EPUB, 924 KB
IPFS:
CID , CID Blake2b
english, 2017
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