SAD SUMMER IN BIARRITZ

by Jill Culiner

Overview

I have now started my new life with its positive dynamic; by recording all details, I'll see a pattern emerge. One day — perhaps in the very near future — I'll peruse these notes with pleasure. One day. When I'm secure in love, in my own home, in happiness.

The narrator, a Canadian woman, hopes to change her life by moving to Biarritz. Having escaped a devastating relationship with the mentally unstable Dominique, she is determined to make new friends and find the perfect mate. But in this summer resort frequented by couples and families, available singles are lonely people, too often embittered by romantic failure. And if the young artist Vinnie has promised entry into local society, he remains an illusive figure.

When Vinnie's body surfaces at the Pointe des Fous new rumours circulate. Had he really been a fortune hunter, a seducer and blackmailer, or just a gentle, over-sensitive man, a loser in love and friendship? The police have concluded his death was accidental, but doesn't everything point to murder? Or is the narrator over-reacting? Perhaps loneliness and isolation have made her suspicious, for love is as unattainable as ever, and threatening letters from Dominique are arriving with increasing frequency.

Sad Summer in Biarritz, is a mystery, a story of the desperately lonely search for love, and a satirical portrait of French nouveau riche society in the 1980s.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940161416273
Publisher:	Club Lighthouse Publishing
Publication date:	02/02/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	624 KB

About the Author

Jill Culiner, artist, photographer, writer and speaker, has been itinerant for most of her life. Born in New York, raised in Toronto, at the age of seventeen she left home to see the world and live in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Amsterdam or small villages in Turkey, Greece, Hungary and Germany. To survive, she has worked as radio announcer, check out clerk, office worker, market seller, Bgirl, newspaper girl, translator, fortune teller, belly dancer, bar dancer, model, actress and film extra. She has also crossed much of Europe on foot.

Her artistic work has been shown in museums, cultural centres and galleries in Europe and Canada. Her literary career began at Radio France where she wrote and broadcast her own travel stories. her first book, a photographic work with text written by Gilbert Lascault, San S'abolir Pourtant, was published in Paris by l'Echoppe in 1991. A first novel, Felicity's Power, was pulped in 2001 when the Australian publisher went out of business. Her next work Finding Home in the Footsteps of the Jewish Fusgeyers was published in 2004 by Sumach Press in Toronto won the Tannenbaum Prize in Canadian Jewish History and was shortlisted for the ForeWord magazine prize in the essay category.