259 records matched your query       

Author:

Foenkinos, David, author.

Title:

The mystery of Henri Pick / David Foenkinos ; translated from the French by Sam Taylor.

Publisher:

Pushkin Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

281 pages ; 20 cm

Subject:

Authors--Fiction.
Manuscripts--Fiction.
Books--Fiction.
Skepticism--Fiction.
Crozon Peninsula (France)--Fiction.
Detective and mystery fiction.

Other Authors:

Taylor, Sam, translator.

Notes:

"The Mystery of Henry Pick was first published as Le Mystère Henri Pick by Editions Gallimard, 2016"--Title page verso.

Summary:

In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring it back to Paris to publish it. The book is a sensation, prompting fevered interest in the identity of its author - apparently one Henri Pick, a now-deceased pizza chef from Crozon. Sceptics cry that the whole thing is a hoax: how could this man have written such a masterpiece? An obstinate journalist, Jean-Michel Rouche, heads to Brittany to investigate.

Series:

Walter presents

ISBN:

1782275827
9781782275824

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1127168566

Locations:

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)