An edition of Le Train de Venise (1965)

The Venice train

[1st American ed.]
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An edition of Le Train de Venise (1965)

The Venice train

[1st American ed.]
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"Pourquoi toute l'image ̌tait-elle centře sur sa fille ? Cela le g̊nait un peu, ou plut̥t c'est apr̈s surtout qu'il y pensa, une fois le train en marche. Et encore ne fut-ce, en řaliť, qu'une impression fugace, ňe au rythme du wagon et aussit̥t absorb̌e par le paysage. Pourquoi Joše et non sa femme ou son jeune fils, alors qu'ils ̌taient group̌s tous les trois dans la moiteur du soleil ? Peut-̊tre parce que la silhouette de sa fille, dans une gare, debout devant un train en partance, ̌tait plus incongrue ? Elle avait douze ans; elle ̌tait grande et mince, les jambes et les bras encore gr̊les, et les bains de mer, le soleil de la plage avaient donň ̉ses cheveux blonds des reflets argenťs"--Page 4 of cover.

A casual meeting with a mysterious man on a train from Venice leads Georges Justin Calmar into a series of serious surprises that cause him to lose control over his own life. The man asks Calmar to deliver a package to a person in Paris for him. But when Calmar gets to the recipent's apartment, he finds her dead, and panics. While searching newspapers for clues to his situation, he finds out that the man who gave him the package has been murdered as well. Calmar, now frantic and thinking he will be the next victim, looks into the package and finds a fortune in various currencies. Attempting to hide his windfall from his wife and coworkers, Calmar becomes increasingly paranoid.

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English
Pages
143

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Cover of: Le train de Venise
Le train de Venise
2011, Presses de la Cité
in French - 1re publication LGF.
Cover of: The Venice train
The Venice train
1974, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Hardcover in English - [1st American ed.]

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Published in

New York, USA

Edition Notes

"A Helen and Kurt Wolff book."

Copyright Date
1974
Translation Of
Le Train de Venise
Translated From
French

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
843/.9/12
Library of Congress
PZ3.S5892 Vc, PQ2637.I53 Vc

Contributors

Translator
Alastair Hamilton

The Physical Object

Format
Hardcover
Pagination
143 p.
Number of pages
143

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL5045583M
Internet Archive
venicetrain00sime
ISBN 10
0151935068
LCCN
74005759
OCLC/WorldCat
866668
Library Thing
2217655
Goodreads
2800538

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