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Missing person
Title:
Missing person
Author:
Modiano, Patrick, 1945-
Personal Author:
Uniform Title:
Rue des boutiques obscures. English
Edition:
1st ed.
Publication Information:
Boston, Mass. : David R. Godine, 2005.
Physical Description:
167 pages ; 21 cm.
Summary:
"For ten years Guy Roland has lived without a past. His current life and name were given to him by his recently retired boss, Hutte, who welcomed him, a one-time client, into his detective agency. Guy makes full use of Hutte's files - directories, yearbooks, and papers of all kinds going back half a century - but leads to his former life are few. Could he really be that person in a photograph, a young man remembered by some as a South American attache? Or was he someone else, perhaps the disappeared scion of a prominent local family? He interviews strangers and is tantalized by half-clues until, at last, he grasps a thread that leads him through the maze of his own repressed experience."
General Note:
"On one level Missing Person is a detective thriller, a 1950s film noir mix of smoky cafes, illegal passports, and insubstantial figures crossing bridges in the fog. On another level, it is also a haunting meditation on the nature of the self"--Book jacket.
Language:
English
Added Author:
ISBN:
9781567922813
Format :
Book