Fatale (New York Review Books Classics)
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Book Info
Author
Manchette, Jean-Patrick
Word Count
24,500 words
based on page count
Pages
98 pages
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Edition Publisher
NYRB Classics
Edition Publish Date
2011-04-26
Identifiers
ISBN-10: 1590173813
ISBN-13: 9781590173817
Description
A New York Review Books Original
\nWhether you call her a coldhearted grifter or the soul of modern capitalism, there’s no question that Aimée is a killer and a more than professional one. Now she’s set her eyes on a backwater burg—where, while posing as an innocent (albeit drop-dead gorgeous) newcomer to town, she means to sniff out old grudges and engineer new opportunities, deftly playing different people and different interests against each other the better, as always, to make a killing. But then something snaps: the master manipulator falls prey to a pure and wayward passion.
Aimée has become the avenging angel of her own nihilism, exacting the destruction of a whole society of destroyers. An unholy original, Jean-Patrick Manchette transformed the modern detective novel into a weapon of gleeful satire and anarchic fun. In Fatale he mixes equal measures of farce, mayhem, and madness to prepare a rare literary cocktail that packs a devastating punch.
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