Command Performance
Published on 11. March 2025
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Paperback/Softback
176 pages
978-1-68137-855-8 (ISBN)
Description
"Gerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the metier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and backroom maneuvering. At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then coopted by one of the party's less savory factions, sinking in deeper and deeper until he finds himself the reluctant assassin of the party's own leader--and that's when things really start going downhill"--
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
New York Review Books
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
197 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-68137-855-8 (9781681378558)
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Jean Echenoz was born in 1947 in Vaucluse, France. He is the author of more than a a dozen novels, including Cherokee, Double Jeopardy, Chopin’s Move, Big Blondes, Piano, Ravel, Running, Lightning, and Special Envoy. His work has received a great number of literary prizes, among them the Prix Goncourt, the Prix Médicis, and the European Literature Jeopardy Prize. He lives in Paris.
Mark Polizzotti has translated over fifty books from the French, including Arthur Rimbaud's The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings (NYRB Poets), and is the author of twelve books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters. He lives in New York.
Mark Polizzotti has translated over fifty books from the French, including Arthur Rimbaud's The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings (NYRB Poets), and is the author of twelve books, including Revolution of the Mind: The Life of André Breton, Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto, and Why Surrealism Matters. He lives in New York.