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Double jeopardy : a novel / by Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.
- Title
- Double jeopardy : a novel / by Jean Echenoz ; translated from the French by Mark Polizzotti.
- Author
- Echenoz, Jean
- Publication
- Boston : D.R. Godine, 1993.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PQ2665.C5 E6813 1993 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Polizzotti, Mark
- Description
- 231 p.; 22 cm.
- Summary
- Jean-Francois ("Jeff'') Pons and Charles Pontiac were once in love with Nicole Fischer. When she preferred a third man to either of them, Jeff went to Malaysia to manage a rubber plantation, while Charles became a protean Parisian vagrant. Thirty years later, Jeff needs weapons for a particularily frivolous labor dispute he has fomented. Returning to Paris, he enlists the aid not only of Nicole and Charles, but also of his nephew Paul and Paul's buddy, Bob, who occasionally smuggle small arms. To complete the generational parallel, both Paul and Bob are interested in Nicole's daughter Justine. Further confusing the plot are a Russian manservant, a used appliance/small weapons importer, Malay insurgents, mutinous sailors and an appealingly inept crew of Belgian toughs.
- Uniform Title
- Equipée malaise. English
- Alternative Title
- Equipée malaise.
- Subject
- Europe > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Black humor (Literature)
- Note
- "Originally published in French in 1986 as: L'équipée malaise by Les Editions de Minuit."
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 0872939166 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^^92005224^//r93
- OCLC
- 25411029
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library