The Margellos World Republic of Letters: Sundays in August : A Novel (Paperback)

from Beamis12

Whenever I pick up a book by this author, before I even open and start reading the first page, I am already thinking, film noir. Shadowy figures, low lighted, foggy streets, cafes and imagining everything in black and white. Two figures, either two men, or a man snd woman, something in their past...

from SigmundFraud

I loved SUNDAYS IN AUGUST by Patrick Modiano, the French writer who recently won the Nobel Prize for Literature. As my readers know, I like place and setting in a novel. While most of Modiano's fiction is set in Paris this book is set in Nice where I live part of the year. So all the sites are fa...

from Hagelstein

Sundays in August embodies the dreamy quality of a memory from the past, but a beguiling memory with a hint of danger, and told with scintillating detail. Then a mystery emerges from the past, hints of which have been dropped in place throughout the story, and dreaminess gives way to something mo...

from Hagelstein

Sundays in August embodies the dreamy quality of a memory from the past, but a beguiling memory with a hint of danger, and told with scintillating detail. Then a mystery emerges from the past, hints of which have been dropped in place throughout the story, and dreaminess gives way to something mo...