| Título : |
The grandmother |
| Tipo de documento: |
texto impreso |
| Autores: |
Simenon, Georges, Autor ; Stewart, Jean, Traductor |
| Editorial: |
United States of America [US] : HBJ |
| Fecha de publicación: |
1959 |
| Número de páginas: |
172 p. |
| Il.: |
21 cm. |
| Dimensiones: |
Printed |
| Idioma : |
Inglés (eng) |
| Palabras clave: |
CONTEMPORARY NOVEL |
| Resumen: |
Summary : Two women, far apart in age yet close in character, become locked in a riveting duel. An emergency brings a grandmother and granddaughter into dangerous proximity: they agree to share the same apartment. Both are ferociously independent, self-willed, strong-minded. Mutually fascinated, they try to exert their influence on each other. And life under the same roof becomes a subtle power game with rules so complicated that only the two players fully understand them. At one point the grand-mother says, “I’m not nice, and I’m too old to star now.” The granddaughter´s malice matches her own. In their battle of wits, the first victory goes to the old woman, the last, definitive one, to the young.
Set in a landmark part of Paris, this poignant tale with its singularly topical theme-where do old people go?-is Simenon at his formidable best, in the evocative setting, the psychological acuity, the absorbing telling. |
| Ubicación : |
813/S732g |
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The grandmother