The Mystery Guest
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- Synopsis
- A &“frank and wry, mad and graceful&” (Slate) true story about getting dumped, and getting over it.When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn&’t have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she&’d vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he&’d never met. Here is the unlikely but true account of how one man got over a broken heart, regained his faith in literature, participated—by mistake—in a work of performance art, threw away his turtlenecks, spent his rent money on a 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank, and fell in love again. Named one of the year&’s best books by Slate and the San Francisco Chronicle when it first appeared in English, The Mystery Guest is a &“darkly hilarious . . . odyssey . . . that wends its loopy way toward yes&” (O, the Oprah Magazine).
- Copyright:
- 2004
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 128 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9781961341067
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781961341050
- Publisher:
- McNally Editions
- Date of Addition:
- 05/21/24
- Copyrighted By:
- Éditions Allia, Paris
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.
- Translator:
- Ben Truman