WAITRESS WAS NEW
Fabre, Dominique.
WAITRESS WAS NEW /Translated from the French by Jordan Stump. - 1 - New York Archipelago Books 2008/01/01 - 117
Pierre is a veteran bartender in a café in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his customers as they come and go – the young man who drinks beer as he reads Primo Levi, the fellow who from time to time strips down and plunges into the nearby Seine, the few regulars who eat and drink there on credit – sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn’t look outside more than necessary; he prefers to let the world come to him. Soon, however, the café must close its doors, and Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thoughts over three days, Pierre’s humanity and profound solitude both emerge. The Waitress Was New is a moving portrait of human anguish and weakness, of understated nobility and strength. Lire est un plaisir describes Dominique Fabre as a “magician of the everyday.”
9780977857692
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction.
Waiters.
Bartenders - France - Paris - Fiction.
Social life and customs - Fiction.
Bartenders.
Fabre, Dominique.
French writer 1960.
Stump, Jordan 1959.
Translater.
F / FAB/WA
WAITRESS WAS NEW /Translated from the French by Jordan Stump. - 1 - New York Archipelago Books 2008/01/01 - 117
Pierre is a veteran bartender in a café in the outskirts of Paris. He observes his customers as they come and go – the young man who drinks beer as he reads Primo Levi, the fellow who from time to time strips down and plunges into the nearby Seine, the few regulars who eat and drink there on credit – sizing them up with great accuracy and empathy. Pierre doesn’t look outside more than necessary; he prefers to let the world come to him. Soon, however, the café must close its doors, and Pierre finds himself at a loss. As we follow his stream of thoughts over three days, Pierre’s humanity and profound solitude both emerge. The Waitress Was New is a moving portrait of human anguish and weakness, of understated nobility and strength. Lire est un plaisir describes Dominique Fabre as a “magician of the everyday.”
9780977857692
Purchased Prism Books,Kadavanthra
Fiction.
Waiters.
Bartenders - France - Paris - Fiction.
Social life and customs - Fiction.
Bartenders.
Fabre, Dominique.
French writer 1960.
Stump, Jordan 1959.
Translater.
F / FAB/WA