Someone Else
Author | : Tonino Benacquista |
Publisher | : Bitter Lemon Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2012-08-31 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781908524133 |
ISBN-13 | : 1908524138 |
Rating | : 4/5 (33 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: “Breathless pace. Touches effortlessly on identity, love, alcohol, and the cynicism of the business world.”—Les Echos Who hasn’t wanted to become “someone else”? Over a drink in Paris, two men give each other three years to see which one can more radically alter his life. Blin becomes a private detective. He takes on a new identity, even a surgically altered face. Gredzinski, a self-effacing corporate executive, discovers liquor that evening and rapidly yields to the sensuality and self-confidence induced by alcoholism. Things get complicated when Blin is hired by an ex-lover to find himself and when Gredzinski secretly follows his girlfriend to her home. A helter-skelter tale of humor and suspense. Winner of the literary prize RTL-Lire.