A dark stranger
Gracq, Julien, 1910-20072013
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Two lovers arrive at a seaside hotel in 1920s Brittany; they have come to commit suicide together. The other guests soon become obsessed with the man, the equivocal unsettling Allan. One by one they realise who he is - that death has come to spend the summer with them.
Main title:
A dark stranger / Julien Gracq ; translated from the French by Christopher Moncrieff.
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Imprint:
London : Pushkin, 2013.
Collation:
255 p. ; 17 cm.
ISBN:
9781908968357 (pbk)
Dewey class:
843.914GEN
Language:
EnglishFrench
BRN:
236065