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A King Alone [New York Review Books Classics]

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Condition: Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including ... Good: A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

ISBN: 9781681373096

Book Title: King Alone

Item Length: 7.9in

Publisher: New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

Publication Year: 2019

Format: Trade Paperback

Language: English

Item Height: 0.6in

Author: Jean Giono

Genre: Fiction

Topic: Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General

Item Width: 5in

Item Weight: 7.1 Oz

Number of Pages: 176 Pages

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An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time A King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter, villagers begin mysteriously to disappear. Soon the village is paralyzed by terror, which gives way to relief and eager anticipation when the outsider Langlois arrives to investigate. What he discovers, however, will leave no one reassured, and his reappearance in the village a few years later, now assigned the task of guarding it from wolves, awakens those troubling memories. A man of few words, a regal manner, and military efficiency, Langlois baffles and fascinates the villagers, whose different responses to him shape Jean Giono's increasingly charged narrative. This novel about a tiny community at the dangerous edge of things and a man of law who is a man alone could be described as a metaphysical Western. It unfolds with the uncanny inevitability and disturbing intensity of a dream.

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Publisher

New York Review of Books, Incorporated, T.H.E.

ISBN-10

1681373092

ISBN-13

9781681373096

eBay Product ID (ePID)

15038447923

Product Key Features

Book Title

King Alone

Author

Jean Giono

Format

Trade Paperback

Language

English

Topic

Psychological, Thrillers / Suspense, Literary, Mystery & Detective / General

Publication Year

2019

Genre

Fiction

Number of Pages

176 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length

7.9in

Item Height

0.6in

Item Width

5in

Item Weight

7.1 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number

Pq2613.I57r613 2019

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"For Giono, literature and reality overlap the way that waves sweep over the shore, one ceaselessly refreshing the other and, in certain wondrous moments, giving it a glassy clearness." --Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic "Giono's writing possesses a vigor, a surprising texture, a contagious joy, a sureness of touch and design, an arresting originality, and that sort of unfeigned strangeness that always goes along with sincerity when it escapes from the ruts of convention." --André Gide, unpublished letter, 1929, "Langlois is as mysterious as Sam Spade....The haunting beauty of this novel lies precisely in its lacunae. This is a book rich with details . . . everything except what we are most longing to know, Langlois's thoughts. We must do all the work ourselves." --Edmund White, The New York Review of Books "Strange and disquieting . . . the twisting narrative reads like a game of telephone passed through generations, with Langlois at the center as a sort of legendary totem to the villagers." -- Publishers Weekly "This immersive novel creates a memorably delirious sense of mystery, obsession, and altered perceptions." -- Kirkus "For Giono, literature and reality overlap the way that waves sweep over the shore, one ceaselessly refreshing the other and, in certain wondrous moments, giving it a glassy clearness." --Ryu Spaeth, The New Republic "Giono's writing possesses a vigor, a surprising texture, a contagious joy, a sureness of touch and design, an arresting originality, and that sort of unfeigned strangeness that always goes along with sincerity when it escapes from the ruts of convention." --André Gide, unpublished letter, 1929

2019

Lccn

2018-030552

Dewey Decimal

843.912

Intended Audience

Trade

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