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02010aam a2200337 i 4500 001 06DFC7482A8711EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220902011726 008 211005t20222022enka 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1913505340 020 $a 9781913505349 035 $a (OCoLC)1273667730 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d GZD $d OCLCF $d CDX $d SILO 050 4 $a PS3607 R474 B33 2022 100 1 $a Greer, James, $d 1971- $e author. 245 10 $a Bad eminence / $c James Greer. 264 1 $a Sheffield : $b And Other Stories, $c 2022. 300 $a 289 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm. 490 1 $a & other stories ; $v 115 505 00 $t Help desk. $t Help desk. 520 $a "Meet Vanessa Salomon, a privileged and misanthropic French-American translator hailing from a wealthy Parisian family. Her twin sister is a famous movie star, which Vanessa resents deeply and daily. The only man Vanessa ever loved recently killed himself by jumping off the roof of her building. It's a full life.Vanessa has just started working on an English translation of a titillating, experimental thriller by a dead author when she's offered a more prominent gig: translating the latest book by an Extremely Famous French Writer who is not in any way based on Michel Houellebecq. As soon as she agrees to meet this writer, however, her other, more obscure project begins to fight back--leading Vanessa down into a literary hell of traps and con games and sadism and doppelgangers and mystic visions and strange assignations and, finally, the secret of life itself."-- $c Front jacket flap. 650 0 $a Women translators $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Authors, French $v Fiction. 650 0 $a French Americans $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Translating and interpreting $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Rich people $v Fiction. 830 0 $a & other stories (Series) ; $v book 115. 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20221203070237.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=06DFC7482A8711EDB7025AE94EECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search