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A sophisticated Parisian art dealer abandons his family to join a treasure hunting expedition to the Arctic, only to find himself caught up in a bizarre theft linked to corruption in the international art market. Winner of the 1999 Prix Goncourt.
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"A mystery that doubles as a sly work of serious literature. . . . This novel is a quick read and a true jewel."
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"I'm Gone combines the policier, the cultural essay and the urban sex novel to create a vivid, entertaining, hybrid."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Combining the offhand wit of Raymond Chandler with the narrative agility of Peter Høeg, Echenoz crafts a clever, philosophical tale."
—Publishers Weekly
"With a wink and a nod and an easy manner of style, Echenoz all but tells us outright not to take any of this too seriously to enjoy I'm Gone in the same devil-may-care spirit in which it is offered."
—The Boston Sunday Globe
"A mordantly humorous work."
—Bookforum
"Echenoz both employs and subverts the convention of the adventure and detective genres in this sly send-up of contemporary art life."
—Library Journal
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Kirkus Reviews
"I'm Gone combines the policier, the cultural essay and the urban sex novel to create a vivid, entertaining, hybrid."
—The New York Times Book Review
"Combining the offhand wit of Raymond Chandler with the narrative agility of Peter Høeg, Echenoz crafts a clever, philosophical tale."
—Publishers Weekly
"With a wink and a nod and an easy manner of style, Echenoz all but tells us outright not to take any of this too seriously to enjoy I'm Gone in the same devil-may-care spirit in which it is offered."
—The Boston Sunday Globe
"A mordantly humorous work."
—Bookforum
"Echenoz both employs and subverts the convention of the adventure and detective genres in this sly send-up of contemporary art life."
—Library Journal
Jean Echenoz is the author of three other novels in English translation and is the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Prix Medicis and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris. Mark Polizzotti has translated over forty books from the French, including works by Gustave Flaubert, Marguerite Duras, Andre Breton, Raymond Roussel, Patrick Modiano, and Jean Echenoz, and has written six of his own. He directs the publications program at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, where he lives. Lily Tuck's novel "The News from Paraguay" won the 2004 National Book Award for fiction.
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- PublisherNew Pr
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 1565846281
- ISBN 13 9781565846289
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages195
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