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The N'Gustro affair
- Title
- The N'Gustro affair / Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Gary Indiana.
- Author
- Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFD 22-140 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
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- Description
- xvii, 180 pages; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Mean, arrogant, naïve, sadistic on occasion, the young Henri Butron records his life story on tape just before death catches up with him. A death passed off as a suicide by his killers, French secret service agents who need to hush up their role-and Butron's-in the kidnapping, torture, and murder of a leading opposition leader from a third-world African nation in the throes of postcolonial civil war. The N'Gustro Affair is a thinly veiled retelling of the 1965 abduction and killing of Mehdi Ben Barka, a radical opponent of King Hassan II of Morocco. But this is merely the backdrop to Jean-Patrick Manchette's first-person portrait (with shades of Jim Thompson's The Killer inside Me) of a man who lacks the insight to see himself for what he is: a wannabe nihilist too weak to be even a full-bore fascist"--
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Affaire N'Gustro. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Affaire N'Gustro.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Novels.
- Call Number
- JFD 22-140
- ISBN
- 9781681375120
- 1681375125
- LCCN
- 2020047544
- 40030744152
- OCLC
- 1224583296
- Author
- Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995, author.
- Title
- The N'Gustro affair / Jean-Patrick Manchette ; translated from the French by Donald Nicholson-Smith ; introduction by Gary Indiana.
- Publisher
- New York : New York Review Books, [2021]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New York Review Books classicsNew York Review Books classics.
- Added Author
- Nicholson-Smith, Donald, translator.Indiana, Gary, writer of introduction.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Manchette, Jean-Patrick, 1942-1995. N'Gustro affair New York : New York Review Books, [2021] 9781681375137 (DLC) 2020047545
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40030744152
- Research Call Number
- JFD 22-140