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Paris 1916- Vincent is 16, 'as old as the century'. With almost every able-bodied young man away at the front, Vincent is approaching manhood very much 'in the absence of men'...In his relationship with the soldier son of one of his parent's servants, who subsequently dies on the batlefront, he explores his sexuality; his platonic relationship with the middle-aged Jewish writer, Marcel Proust, stimulates an intelligence and sophistication remarkable in an adolescent; and with both he enters a world of love, and the final loss of what remains of his childhood innocence. Set in the very recognizable world of Proust's Paris, 'In the Absence of Men' is a remarkable act of homage to a great writer.
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Sales Points--Heinemann's first novel in translation since the hugely successful Atomised, which has sold 100,000 copies in Vintage--Extravagant praise in the French press- 'A superb novel, brilliant, inventive and audacious- exquisite and cruel, deliciously written' Le Monde--'From time to time, but only rarely, first novels appear which announce, without hesitation, without dispute, the arrival of a real writer. This must have been the conviction of the first readers of Camus' The Outsider or Sartre's Nausea. Such is the experience of reading Philippe Besson's In the Absence of Men- There is everything here. Daring, style, humour, atmosphere, characters, truth and imaginative illusion. A world- Read this book- In reading it, I have been witness to a total triumph.' Magazine Litteraire--'What an astonishing, spellbinding first novel! The writing has genuine mastery. Precise, fluid, light- its charm is ceaseless-' T-l-rama
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IN THE ABSENCE OF MEN. Translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
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William Heinemann, 2002., 2002
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