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Vincent is 16 and, with almost every able-bodied young man away at the front, he is approaching manhood. In his relationships with the soldier son of one of his parent's servants and with the writer, Marcel Proust he enters a world of love, both erotic and platonic.
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"A superb novel, brilliant, inventive and audacious... exquisite and cruel, deliciously written." - "Le Monde "From time to time... first novels appear which announce, without hesitation, without dispute, the arrival of a real writer... Such is the experience of reading Philippe Besson's "In the Absence of Men." - "Magazine Litteraire
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'An astonishing love story, beautifully told' Time Out
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann Ltd
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0434009695
- ISBN 13 9780434009695
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages176
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