03: A Novel

by Jean-Christophe Valtat

Book Overview

"From the bus stop across the street, it was hard to tell, but suddenly I understood, seeing the passengers in the van that picked her up every morning, that she was slightly retarded."

A precocious teenager in a French suburb finds himself powerfully, troublingly drawn to the girl he sees every day on the way to school. As he watches and thinks about her, his daydreams--full of lyrics from Joy Division and the Smiths, fairy tales, Flowers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374100217
• ISBN13: 9780374100216
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.6" x 8.1"

Customer Reviews

If Holden Caulfield had read Jean-Paul Satre

For a novella this book took a long time for me to read. There is zero plot in this book, just the navel-gazing of an adolescent male. Thought I would love it - I didn't. I don't normally leave negative reviews, but I made an exception here. Turgid.