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Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (2009, Paperback) 
Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (2009, Paperback)

 
Running Away by Jean-Philippe Toussaint (2009, Paperback)

Author: Jean-Philippe Toussaint
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Pr
Publication Date: 2009-11-10
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 156478567X
ISBN-13: 9781564785671
Product ID: EPID73293799
Description: The fiction of Jean-Philippe Toussaint (CAMERA, BATHROOM) can best be described as slapstick existentialism, like Paul Auster after a gulp of nitrous oxide. Here Toussaint follows a hapless anonymous narrator on a trip to Shanghai, where...
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The fiction of Jean-Philippe Toussaint (CAMERA, BATHROOM) can best be described as slapstick existentialism, like Paul Auster after a gulp of nitrous oxide. Here Toussaint follows a hapless anonymous narrator on a trip to Shanghai, where he finds that the only way he can achieve anything is to stop trying. Strange things begin to happen as he surrenders his personal agency, including an abbreviated tryst on a train with a stunning Chinese beauty and an unforgettable motorcycle chase reminiscent of Steve McQueen. Toussaint is consistently interesting and amusing, as he demonstrates the absurdity of our belief in our own ability to control the seminal events of our lives.

Details
Publication Date:2009-11-10

Size
Length:156 pages
Height:7.5 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.5 in
Weight:6.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Accepting a seemingly small task from his Parisian girlfriend while vacationing in Shanghai, a European man experiences a series of existential complications including a cash payoff, impromptu traveling companions, and suspicious coincidences. By the author of The Bathroom. Original.

Industry Reviews
"[W]onderfully stylized....Like an interior decorator who ignores a party to finger the drapes, RUNNING AWAY is more engrossed in its backdrops than in its characters. Shuttling among Shanghai, Paris, Beijing and Elba, the book broods over how the trappings of globalization...have done little to further intimacy. To advance this garden-variety claim, the story makes selective use of noir elements: it forsakes femmes fatales, double-crosses and murder investigations but retains chase scenes, ambiguous relationships and bountiful mood lighting. The result is a sort of existential mystery."
(12/27/2009)

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