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Author:
Dard, Frederic, author.
Title:
Crush / Frederic Dard ; [translation, Daniel Seton].
Publisher:
Pushkin Vertigo,
Copyright Date:
2016
Description:
156 pages ; 20 cm.
Subject:
France, Northern--Fiction.
Other Authors:
Seton, Daniel, translator.
Other Titles:
Scelerats. English
Notes:
"A sultry tale of suspense and murder"--Cover. Originally published in French as: Les scelerats. Paris : Fleuve Editions, 1959.
Summary:
Bored with her mundane factory job, her nagging mother and her alcoholic father-in-law, Louise is captivated by a glamorous American couple who move to her industrial hometown in Northern France. The Roolands' home is an island of colour, good humour and easy living in drab 1950s Leopoldville, and soon Louise is working there as a maid. But once she is under her new employers' roof their model life starts to fall apart - painful secrets from their past emerge, cracks in their relationship appear and a dark obsession begins to grow, which will end in murder...
ISBN:
1782271988
9781782271987 (paperback) :
OCLC:
(OCoLC)960039758
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)
GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

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