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Someone Else

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English
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Fiction

"Breathless pace. Touches effortlessly on identity, love, alcohol, and the cynicism of the business world."—Les Echos Who hasn't wanted to become "someone else"? Over a drink in Paris, two men give each other three years to see which one can more radically alter his life. Blin becomes a private detective. He takes on a new identity, even a surgically altered face. Gredzinski, a self-effacing corporate executive, discovers liquor that evening and rapidly yields to the sensuality and self-confidence induced by alcoholism. Things get complicated when Blin is hired by an ex-lover to find himself and when Gredzinski secretly follows his girlfriend to her home. A helter-skelter tale of humor and suspense. Winner of the literary prize RTL-Lire.

© 2012 Bitter Lemon Press (Ebook): 9781913394424

Translators: Adriana Hunter

Release date

Ebook: September 20, 2012

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