In an apartment in Faubourg Saint-Honore that has seen better days, Dominique, the daughter of a general, is busy mending her dress. It is hot. She sits in her slip as she sews and listens to the noises of the city, listens to the scratchy tango the couple in the other room, her boarders, play on the gramophone while they make love. Sometimes Dominique cannot resist looking through the keyhole, though it hurts her and makes her giddy. In three months she will be forty. All the shutters across the street are wide open. ...
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In an apartment in Faubourg Saint-Honore that has seen better days, Dominique, the daughter of a general, is busy mending her dress. It is hot. She sits in her slip as she sews and listens to the noises of the city, listens to the scratchy tango the couple in the other room, her boarders, play on the gramophone while they make love. Sometimes Dominique cannot resist looking through the keyhole, though it hurts her and makes her giddy. In three months she will be forty. All the shutters across the street are wide open. Dominique watches the Rouets. She follows their gestures, the movements of their lips. It is a long story without words, and she knows the smallest episodes of it. Then one day she sees Monsieur Rouet in his bed gasp his last while in the next room Antoinette, his wife, stands holding the medicine, her hand on the doorknob. With his usual mastery Georges Simenon describes the day-to-day suffering of a woman who lives alone and only through the lives of others.
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Good. First edition copy. Collectible-Good. Very Good dust jacket. With remainder mark. Lightly foxed on page edges. English edition. (fiction, mystery, psychological)
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Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 0151032661. We consider each and every book we sell to be a treasure. That's why we provide accurate individualized condition descriptions; ship in sturdy protective packaging; and offer excellent customer service.; Half blue cloth cover over blue boards is near pristine. Boards and spine are straight. Binding is tight. Pages are clean and pristine. Remainder mark on top page edge. Book has never been cracked open. Dust jacket has scuffs on back panel but near pristine. Publisher's price of $18.95 on DJ flap. DJ protected by a brand new, clear, acid-free mylar cover. We add mylar covers to all books with DJs to preserve the DJs and add luster to magnify their beauty. (If pictured, shown without the mylar cover for an accurate representation of dust. ); 8.8 X 5.9 X 0.9 inches.
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Good. No Jacket. Translated form the French by John Petrie. Name of the previous owner. Publication of 183 pages. The boards are a little shelf rubbed and slightly faded marks. Internally the pages are clean and complete. The binding is excellent. GK.
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Very Good in Good jacket. First English edition. Translated by Geoffrey Sainsbury. Small octavo. Handsome Thoth bookseller ticket (black and red) of Sydney's Grahame Book Company on front pastedown. Binding cocked with modest offsetting on endleaves, very good or better in a price-clipped and modestly soiled, good only dust jacket dampstained at the spine with a couple of tiny nicks. (The dampstain is most visible on the interior. ) Prints the novellas *Chit of a Girl* and *Justice*.
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