Low Heights: Shocking, hilarious and poignant noir

by Pascal Garnier, Melanie Florence (Translator)

Overview

Vultures at least have the decency to wait until their prey is dead before they rip it to pieces . . .At the home in the mountains he shares with his put-upon nurse, Thérèse, cantankerous retiree Édouard Lavenant is attempting to write his memoirs when a visitor calls, claiming to be his long-lost son. Jean-Baptiste's presence seems to bring about a softening of Édouard's temper, but the family reunion is soon threatened by the local vultures circling overhead . . .

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781805336112
Publisher:	Pushkin Press Limited
Publication date:	01/21/2025
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	192
File size:	478 KB

About the Author

Pascal Garnier, who died in March 2010, was a talented novelist, short story writer, children's author and painter. From his home in the mountains of the Ardèche, he wrote fiction in a noir palette with a cast of characters drawn from ordinary provincial life. Though his writing is often very dark in tone, it sparkles with quirkily beautiful imagery and dry wit. Garnier's work has been likened to the great thriller writer, Georges Simenon.

Editorial Reviews

Very funny, full of insight on being arrogant and getting old,Low Heights has as much to say about ageing and emotional intelligence as many more overtly literary novels,Pascal Garnier's Low Heights continues his run of mordant, blackhumoured, murderous farces to superb effect,Deliciously sly and nuanced, Low Heights is as much an acerbic commentary on the crime novel's conventions as it is a slow-burning psychological thriller

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