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ZIN Product Number: 10510115
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 Format: Paperback, 224 pages
Publisher: Harvill Press, The
ISBN: 1860465749
Release Date: Jan 9, 2000
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Alphonse Courrier possessed all that might make a modestly ambitious man content: a respectable position in his Auvergne village; a prosperous ironmonger's shop; a dutiful, beautiful wife, Agnès, who bore him two sons; and a secret mistress, Adèle. But fate has a way of dealing you the joker just when you think you hold all the best cards. Assuredly, the villagers could continue to indulge in their favorite blood sport-gossip-but some secrets are too well guarded for even the best of gossips.
In The Alphonse Courrier Affair, Marta Morazzoni has identified the dynamic undercurrents that surge beneath the placid surface of daily life and exposed them to a quizzical, amused, devastating gaze that will exhilarate any reader who enjoys filling in the gaps of what the author has left unsaid.
Marta Morazzoni was born in Milan in 1950. She teaches literature in a secondary school and has written three other novels, including His Mother's House and a brilliant volume of short stories, Girl in a Turban.
* "Compelling evocation of place and character and a rich prose style mark Morazzoni as a writer of exceptional prose talent." —Publishers Weekly
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Translated from the Italian, this family melodrama concerns the affair between a French ironmonger and his secretive mistress, set against a background of small-town gossip.|
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