Little Grey Lies (The French List) - Hardcover

Kaddour, HÃdi

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857420984 ISBN 13: 9780857420985

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2013

Synopsis

London between the wars was a place of anxiety and uncertainty. After the postwar boom of the 1920s, the after-effects of the stock market crash hit London and, even as the fortunes of the aristocracy went into decline, there was hunger and a rising tide of virulent fascism. It is in this setting that Max, a French journalist looking for his next story, and Lena, an American singer, find themselves in Hedi Kaddour's "Little Grey Lies". Once lovers, but now friends, Max and Lena travel with Lena's new man, Thibault and with Max's barely masked jealousy. Then they meet the striking Colonel Strether, the epitome of military decorum and bearing. An aging war hero, Strether seems to Max to be his best chance at a story, but as the two men talk, it seems Strether may not be who he claims, and the old soldier's past begins to trouble Max and Lena. As in his other work, internationally renowned poet and novelist Hedi Kaddour offers shifting time-frames and kaleidoscopic viewpoints in a mannered metafictional thriller that bears comparison to both Robert Coover and John Le Carre. "Little Grey Lies" is historical suspense at its best.

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Review:

"Little Grey Lies is a very British novel, steeped in the atmosphere of Edgar P. Jacobs and the vintage grandeur of Blake and Mortimer. Thinner but no less ambitious than Waltenberg, this is an elegant novel."-Pierre Assouline, Le Monde"

About the Author:

Hedi Kaddour is professor of French literature at New York University's Paris campus. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator who lives in Chicago. She has published more than twenty translations.

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857420984
• ISBN 13: 9780857420985
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224