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GRAVEDIGGERS BREAD : Frédéric Dard ; translated by Melanie Florence.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Series: Pushkin vertigoPublication details: London Pushkin Vertigo 2018/01/01Edition: First editionDescription: 157ISBN:
  • 9781782272014 (pbk.)
  • 1782272011 (pbk.)
Uniform titles:
  • Pain des fossoyeurs. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • F DAR
Summary: "Blaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise.A chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office and Blaise is hooked - he realizes he'll do anything to stay by her side, and soon finds himself working for her husband, a funeral director. But the tension in this strange love triangle begins to mount, and eventually results in a highly unorthodox burial..."--Publisher's description.
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Item type Current library Collection Call number Status Date due Barcode
Lending Lending Ernakulam Public Library General Stacks Non-fiction F DAR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available E191649

"The Gravediggers' Bread was first published as Le Pain des fossoyeurs in Paris in 1956"--Title page verso.

"Blaise should never have hung around in that charmless little provincial town. The job offer that attracted him the first place had failed to materialize. He should have got on the first train back to Paris, but Fate decided otherwise.A chance encounter with a beautiful blonde in the town post-office and Blaise is hooked - he realizes he'll do anything to stay by her side, and soon finds himself working for her husband, a funeral director. But the tension in this strange love triangle begins to mount, and eventually results in a highly unorthodox burial..."--Publisher's description.

Translated from the French.

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