Jean Stewart
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1979.
Language
English
Description
A fledgling reporter for a Catholic newspaper in Belgium spends his evenings at a nightclub/bordello where he becomes obsessed with a girl, falls into debt, and gets involved with criminal characters who force him to steal identity papers for them.
Author
Publisher
Harcourt, Brace & World
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
This is straight fiction Simenon, in a masterful unwrapping of a sixteen-year-old boy from the long half-sleep of childhood. Andre Bar would rather not hear, but each of his parents insists on telling him one side of their dismal but continuing marriage. Coming just as he's begun to fall in love for the first time and wants to believe in the security of simply motivated affection, the disclosure is particularly unwelcome; he thrusts it away, preserving...