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Across the Street (1992)
by Georges Simenon
A woman nearing middle age suffers from loneliness as she lives vicariously through the lives of her neighbors. By the author of Donadieu's Will. (learn more about this book)
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The Door (1990)
by Georges Simenon
A reminder of the late author's insight and artistic understatement, this 1962 original retains force in Woodward's translation. Simenon creates a mood of impending tragedy as he recounts the thoughts tormenting Bernard Foy 20 years after his hands were blown off in WW II. Fitted with a... (learn more about this book)
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Striptease (1989)
by Georges Simenon
Refining storytelling to near-Spartan brevity, Simenon is bound to provoke intense reactions to his fiction, whether policiers or "straight novels" like this one. Brain's translation of the 1958 French edition, true to the author's original, brings us to the tacky Monico nightclub in Cannes.... (learn more about this book)
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Maigret on the Riviera (1988)
by Georges Simenon
Maigret must discover who killed a poverty-stricken Australian in this deft, psychologically fascinating story of men who kick over the traces--and of men who don't. (learn more about this book)
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The Rules of the Game (1988)
by Georges Simenon
Curtis's translation from Simenon's novel is merely competent, yet readers will feel the impact of the French original, published in 1955. The story was obviously inspired by the gifted author's temporary residence in a Connecticut town, here called Williamson. As described in spare, poetic... (learn more about this book)
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Uncle Charles Has Locked Himself in (1987)
by Georges Simenon
Written in 1939, this psychological novel betrays no aging in Curtis's seemingly literal translation of Simenon's disciplined, flavorful French. The setting is Rouen where Charles Dupeux returns from work one day and shuts himself off in the attic. His wife Laurence and four daughters get no... (learn more about this book)
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The Outlaw (1987)
by Georges Simenon
Simenon's acute sensitivity to losers permeates this novel, in spite of a somewhat elliptical and incompatible translation of the 1941 French edition. The outlaw is Stan, who has fled persecution in his native Poland and is now penniless in Paris with his waiflike girlfriend Nuschi. Leaving her... (learn more about this book)
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The Survivors (1985)
by Georges Simenon
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The Reckoning (1984)
by Georges Simenon
Text: English, French (translation) (learn more about this book)
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