My Friends

by Bove, Emmanuel (translated from the French by Janet Louth)

1st U.K. edition

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Book description: Manchester (U.K.): Carcanet Press Ltd.. 1986 (c.1977). 1st U.K. edition. Hardcover. [nice clean copy, no significant wear; jacket shows just a trace of edgewear]. Reprint of the 1923 novel that launched its author's literary career. "The narrator, Victor Baton, describes his world of walking, washing, strolling, eating and longing, meticulously and without a trace of irony. [He] drifts from encounter to encounter, looking for the elusive special friend. A veteran of unspecified battles, with some secret wound under his shabby coat, hungry for affection, he picks about the margins of Paris life, a ghost unencumbered by anachronistic rules of etiquette, pride and vanity. His guilelessness and conceit are wonderful instruments for presenting a sequence of encounters which laughter makes timeless." . Fine in Near Fine dj.

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