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Georges Simenon Mr Hire's Engagement (Paperback) Penguin Modern Classics
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- 9780141978468
- ISBN
- 9780141978468
- Release Year
- 2014
- Literary Movement
- Modernism
- Publication Name
- Mr Hire's Engagement
- Book Series
- Penguin Modern Classics
- Title
- Mr Hire's Engagement
- ISBN-10
- 0141978465
- Genre
- Fiction
- Item Length
- 129mm
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- GB
- Release Date
- 06/11/2014
- UPC
- 9780141978468
- Publication Year
- 2014
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Book Title
- Mr Hire's Engagement
- Item Height
- 198mm
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Topic
- Crime, Books
- Item Width
- 129mm
- Item Weight
- 123g
- Number of Pages
- 160 Pages
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People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. He is a peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Georges Simenon's chilling portrayal of tragic love, persecution and betrayal.'One sensed in him neither flesh nor bone, nothing but soft, flaccid matter, so much so that his movements were hard to make out. Very red lips stood out from his orb-like face, as did the thin moustache that he curled with an iron and looked as if it had been drawn on with India ink; on his cheekbones were the symmetrical pink dots of a doll's cheeks.'People find Mr Hire strange, disconcerting. The tenants he shares his building with try to avoid him. He is a peeping Tom, a visitor of prostitutes, a dealer in unsavoury literature. He is also the prime suspect for a brutal murder that he did not commit. Yet Mr Hire's innocence will not stand in the way of those looking for a scapegoat as tragedy unfolds in this quietly devastating and deeply unnerving novel. 'The romans durs are extraordinary- tough, bleak, offhandedly violent, suffused with guilt and bitterness, redolent of place . . . utterly unsentimental, frightening in the pitilessness of their gaze, yet wonderfully entertaining' John Banville
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Penguin Books Ltd
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Book Title
Mr Hire's Engagement
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Crime, Books
Publication Year
2014
Number of Pages
160 Pages
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198mm
Item Width
129mm
Item Weight
123g
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Penguin Modern Classics
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United Kingdom
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