Henry Blain, a sixty-something Liverpudlian, is prison cook, Shakespeare lover, and a murderer. The prison he works in is called Strangeways, and his love affair, with a 50-year-old reporter, takes place against the backdrop of the 1990 seige. At first vilified by the prisoners—who understandably blame him for the quality of the food they're served and devastate his garden with missiles flung from the roof—Blain later becomes their hero. Along the way we learn he has murdered two of his wives, one mistress, and a blackmailer, and buried them in the garden. A meditation on food and digestion, with a large measure of sex and fantasy, and a handful of murders thrown in, this is an anarchic, funny, irreverent novel.

Strange Ways

Literature & Fiction

Lang, Luc

Humor & Satire

Orion Publishing

In sixteen ferocious short stories French author Luc Lang encapsulates the brutality of everyday life. Each tale is an admixture of tragedy, comedy, ridicule, and pain. Compassion lurks somewhere, perhaps, but pity is conspicuous by its absence.
Lang’s curt, agitated prose disassembles daily life with a swift, unflinching hand and examines it with a sharp, analytic eye. Skinning quotidian moments to bare, raw impulses, confusions, and the agonies underneath, the stories in Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor show the mundane grind of the everyday forces that are fueled by cruel calculation and amoral happenstance and shot through with bizarre surprise. The results are at once coldly comic and powerfully tragic.
Interpreting human interactions as a series of precise jabs and desperate flailings, Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor tells truths about the darker sides of our potential and our well-meaning urges dimmed by chance.

Cruel Tales from the Thirteenth Floor (French Voices)

Literary

University Of Nebraska Press

Henry Blain, a sixty-something Liverpudlian, is prison cook, Shakespeare lover, and a murderer. The prison he works in is called Strangeways, and hisBlain later becomes their hero. Along the way we learn he has murdered two of his wives, one mistress, and a blackmailer, and buried them in the garden. A meditation on food and digestion, with a large measure of sex and fantasy, and a handful of murders thrown in, this is an anarchic, funny, irreverent novel.

Contemporary

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Mille Six Cents Ventres

Genre Fiction

Фоліо

La tentation

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FAYARD

LA FIN DES PAYSAGES

Stock

Emmanuel SAULNIER

Arts & Photography

Greff, Jean-Pierre

Oudard, Philippe

Individual Artists

REGARD

1600 Bäuche.

Ullstein TB-Vlg

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