In the café of lost youth
Modiano, Patrick, 1945-2016
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Four narrators, a student from a café, a private detective hired by an aggrieved husband, the heroine herself and one of her lovers, construct a portrait of Jacqueline Delanque, otherwise known as Louki. The daughter of a single mother who works in the Moulin Rouge, Louki grows up in poverty in Montmartre. Her one attempt to escape her background fails when she is rejected from the Lycee Jules-Ferry. She meanders on through life, into a cocaine habit, and begins frequenting the Café Condé, whose regulars call her 'Louki'. She drifts into marriage with a real estate agency director, but finds no satisfaction with him or his friends and so makes the simple decision not to return to him one evening. She turns instead to a young man almost as aimless and adrift as she but who perhaps loves her all the same.
Main title:
In the café of lost youth / Patrick Modiano ; translated from the French by Euan Cameron.
Author:
Modiano, Patrick, 1945-, authorCameron, Euan (Translator), translator
Imprint:
London : MacLehose Press, 2016.
Collation:
153 pages ; 20 cm
ISBN:
9780857055262 (hbk)
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
1083119
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