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La femme du Ve (The Woman in the Fifth) (French Edition)
La femme du Ve - The Woman in the Fifth - French Edition Author:Douglas Kennedy, Bernard Cohen (Translator) Jeté hors de chez lui par sa femme, loin de sa fille et renvoyé de son poste de professeur d'université, Harry Ricks n'a plus grand-chose à perdre. Réfugié à Paris, ses seules perspectives sont d'aller au cinéma et de tenir le plus longtemps possible avec ses maigres écon... more »omies. Sans le sou, il découvre bientôt, lui l'intellectuel américain, une ville sordide, celle des marchands de sommeil, des clandestins et des combines louches. Aussi, quand il rencontre Margit, femme élégante et sensuelle, il plonge avec délice dans le jeu de séduction dont elle édicte les étranges règles. Un jeu troublant, plein de plaisir, de mystères, et, ce qu'Harry ignore encore, de dangers...
Raduit de l'américain par Bernard Cohen.
Harry Ricks is a man who has lost everything. A romantic mistake at the small American college where he used to teach has cost him his job, his marriage, and the love of his only child. Hounded by scandal, he flees to Paris, where a series of accidental encounters lands him in a grubby room with a job as night watchman for a sinister operation.
Just when he begins to think he has hit rock bottom, romance enters his life in the form of Margit -- a cultivated, widowed Hungarian emigre who shares Harry’s profound loneliness but who keeps her distance, remaining guarded about her past.
As Harry wrestles with Margit’s reticence, he begins to notice that all those who have recently done him wrong are meeting unfortunate ends -- and it soon becomes apparent that he has stumbled into a nightmare from which there is no escape.« less