Research Catalog

Title

Robe de marié / Pierre Lemaître.

Author

Lemaître, Pierre, 1951-

Publication

Paris : Calman Lévy : Libraire générale française, 2010, ©2009.

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Details

Description

313 pages; 18 cm

Summary

• "Nul n'est à l'abri de la folie. Sophie, une jeune femme qui mène une existence paisible, commence à sombrer lentement dans la démence: mille petits signes inquiétants s'accumulent puis tout s'accélère. Est-elle responsable de la mort de sa belle-mère, de celle de son mari infirme? Peu à peu, elle se retrouve impliquée dans plusieurs meurtres dont, curieusement, elle n'a aucun souvenir. Alors, désespérée mais lucide, elle organise sa fuite: elle change de nom, de vie, se marie, mais son douloureux passé la rattrape... Les ombre de Hitchcock et de Brian de Palma planet sur ce thriller diabolique."--Page 4 of cover.
• Normally happy and well-adjusted, Sophie Duguet doesn't understand what's happening to her: she has begun losing things, from her recently delivered mail to the car she parked the night before. She is constantly forgetting things she's said and done, too ... only to be reminded of them by her acquaintances. She's even detained by the police for shoplifting--a crime she has no memory whatsoever of having committed. But this is just the beginning. As she slowly sinks deeper into dementia, things go from troubling to alarming. Soon she finds herself connected to the deaths of several people around her: a neighbor boy she is babysitting is murdered while in her care; a stranger seeks shelter with her and winds up dead; and finally, her employer is killed in a way that suggests she was responsible. And she doesn't remember a thing about any of it. To escape the nightmare, a confused and horrified Sophie changes her name and relocates, hoping to outrun the demons that have begun to plague her. But this may not be enough to stop the evil that has poisoned her life and begun to claim the lives of everyone around her.

Series Statement

Le livre de poche ; 31638

Subject

• Amnesia > Fiction
• Loss of consciousness > Fiction
• Life change events > Fiction
• Amnésie > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Perte de conscience > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Événements stressants de la vie > Romans, nouvelles, etc
• Amnesia
• Life change events
• Loss of consciousness

Genre/Form

• French language materials.
• Fiction
• Psychological fiction

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9782253120605
• 225312060X

OCLC

• 767901034
• SCSB-11092048

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library