Heartsnatcher (Quartet Encounters)

Vian, Boris; Chapman, Stanley (Transl.); Sturrock, John (Intr.)

ISBN 10: 0704300680 / ISBN 13: 9780704300682

Published by Quartet Books Ltd, London, 1989

About this Item

First Quartet Books printing, trade paperback, has a mild skew to the binding, light bumps to the spine ends and corners, a shallow crease to the lower corner of the front cover and first few pages, rubbing with some faint smudging to the covers, an area of shallow scraping over the bar code on the back, and a few small spots and smudges to the edges of the text block. Otherwise, this is a solid, tight Very Good copy with a crisp interior.

Seller Inventory # 108099

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Heartsnatcher (Quartet Encounters)
• Publisher: Quartet Books Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: French
• ISBN 10: 0704300680
• ISBN 13: 9780704300682
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition Thus.
• Condition: Very Good
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Set in a bizarre and slightly sinister town where the elderly are auctioned off at an Old Folks Fair, the townspeople assail the priest in hopes of making it rain, and the official town scapegoat bears the shame of the citizens by fishing junk out of the river with his teeth. Heartsnatcher is Boris Vian's most playful and most serious work. The main character is Clementine, a mother who punishes her husband for causing her the excruciating pain of giving birth to three babies. As they age, she becomes increasingly obsessed with protecting them, going so far as to build an invisible wall around their property.