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Tropic moon / Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Marc Romano ; introduction by Norman Rush.
- Title
- Tropic moon / Georges Simenon ; translated from the French by Marc Romano ; introduction by Norman Rush.
- Author
- Simenon, Georges, 1903-1989.
- Publication
- New York : New York Review Books, c2005.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Request in advance | PQ2637.I53 C613 2005 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Romano, Marc.
- Description
- xi, 133 p.; 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Tropic Moon is set in the early 1930s in French West Africa, where the promise of opportunity runs up against the stark realities of brutal racism and boundless corruption. A young Frenchman, Joseph Timar, travels to Gabon carrying a letter of introduction from an influential uncle. He wants work experience; he wants to see the world. It turns out, though, that no one in the tightknit colonial community has the least bit of use for him - except, that is, Adele, the hotel owner's wife, who takes him to bed one day and ignores him the next, leaving him sick with desire. But then, in the course of a couple of nights, a black servant is shot and Adele's husband dies. Timar is sure that Adele is implicated. If he holds his tongue, maybe she'll do his bidding. The fix is in.
- But Timar can't even begin to imagine how deep."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- New York Review Books classics
- Uniform Title
- Coup de lune. English
- New York Review Books classics.
- Alternative Title
- Coup de lune.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Fiction
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- ISBN
- 159017111X (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005006143
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library