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The Adversary: A True Story of Monstrous Deception
The Adversary--now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome).
Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, whose fiction John Updike described as "stunning" (The New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
Book Details
- Publisher: Picador USA
- Publish Date: Jan 5th, 2002
- Pages: 208
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.40in - 5.40in - 0.60in - 0.55lb
- EAN: 9780312420604
- Categories: • Murder - General• Criminals & Outlaws
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What people are saying
"It’s an extraordinary enough story from the bare facts, but Carrere’s precise and spare prose and reflexive self-inquiry elevate it to a work of real genius."
"...it’s a jaw-dropping tale of murder and deception that goes right to the heart of what it means to be human. Reading it feels, in the best possible way, like being trapped in a lift in freefall through a deserted skyscraper. The perfect antidote to an excess of sunshine."
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Anyone who's read our newsletter will know we're huge fans of Emmanuel Carrère - especially his true crime tale, The Adversary. This review of his latest book, Yoga, is a fascinating read about honesty and stretching the truth in writing about real life. https://t.co/rBRhk0yRtJ? https://t.co/siJ2vd3IE6
Praise for this book
"Unputdownable...Imagine a sleek, twenty-first century version of In Cold Blood." --The Washington Post Book World
"The mesmerizing true crime tale of an apparently ordinary man whose life mutates in the space of a few blood-splattering hours from the realm of Renoir to that of Stephen King." --People
"Mesmerizing...a fascinating meditation on Jean-Claude Romand and what his bizarre life might mean." --The New York Times Book Review
"As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on you when you attempt to pull away....You say: True crime and Literature? I don't believe it. I say: Believe it." --Junot Díaz, author of Drown
What people are saying
"It’s an extraordinary enough story from the bare facts, but Carrere’s precise and spare prose and reflexive self-inquiry elevate it to a work of real genius."
"...it’s a jaw-dropping tale of murder and deception that goes right to the heart of what it means to be human. Reading it feels, in the best possible way, like being trapped in a lift in freefall through a deserted skyscraper. The perfect antidote to an excess of sunshine."