Patrick Dewitt

Laissant derrière eux New York, de lourds effluves de scandale et le spectre de la ruine financière, Frances Price (veuve foutraque aussi belle qu’acerbe) et son fils unique Malcolm (loser à tous les étages) larguent les amarres en compagnie de Small Frank, le chat (réincarnation maussade du défunt mari). Direction Paris, où une dernière bataille doit être livrée, qui pourrait bien être synonyme d’autodestruction... Une virée mère/fils désopilante, que seul un Patrick deWitt pouvait concevoir.

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Kat Albanese

 “Do you ever feel,” she asked, "that adulthood was thrust upon you at too young an age, and that you are still essentially a child mimicking the behaviors of the adults all around you in hopes they won’t discover the meager contents of your heart?"

Rebecca DeFazio

“But I was shocked because I suddenly understood that the heart takes care of itself. We allow ourselves contentment; our heart brings us ease in its time.”

An exclamatory brightness saturated the field of her mind and in the moment preceding death she felt heroic. She suspected this a trick of the heart, one final deception before the void announced itself, but she went along with it, wanting to be game. Was there anything worse in the world than a poor sport?

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