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Why did this whole scene, despite the blinding light, give the feeling of gray? As if the lamps with their glaring light, while making the eyes hurt, were unable to dissolve the night that these people carried upon them as they emerged from the outside darkness.
They were tightening around each other more and more, not anymore like lovers, but like two individuals who had wandered in their solitude for a long time and had finally been granted the unexpected grace of human contact. When Kay and François meet in a Manhattan bar in the night, both are in despair. He, about fifty, a former famous actor, is trying to forget that his wife left him for a younger man; she, driven out of the room she shared with a friend, has no place even to sleep...
Their attraction is mutual, but will it be enough to heal the wounds from life's blows? François, on one hand, fears losing Kay, and on the other, is terribly jealous of her past and the men she has known; it would take little to destroy this love that could be a new opportunity...
Georges Simenon leads us into the heart of New York City, shadowing the couple's wanderings, with the truth and humanity that have won him millions of readers and a leading place among writers of our century. The novel was published in 1946. It is the first that Simenon wrote immediately after meeting his second wife in the United States, where he settled at the end of 1945. In 1965, Marcel Carné adapted it into a film starring Maurice Ronet and Annie Girardot, who was honored in Cannes with the Best Actress Award.
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- Author
- Georges Simenon
- Publisher
- Agra
- Original Title
- Trois chambres à Manhattan
- Type
- Crime
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 241
- Release Date
- 11/2007
- Publication Date
- 2007
- Dimensions
- 12x17 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789603257103
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- Series
- Jules Maigret
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