Claude is a fallen angel from the hedonistic 1970's nightclubbing scene in Paris and St. Tropez. As Anthology of Apparitions begins, he is in his forties, destroyed by the mystery of his sister's disappearance - he sits in a cafe drinking and day-dreaming. Only the ghostly appearances from his past make life tolerable. Claude is haunted by memories and vision of 1976, when he was sixteen and his sister Marina only a child. Together they belonged to the world of wild young things living on the edge, but when Marina started to lose her way, Claude did nothing to save her.
Claude is a fallen angel from the hedonistic 1970s nightclubbing scene in Paris and St. Tropez. As Anthology of Apparitions begins, he is in his forties, destroyed by the mystery of his sister’s disappearance—he sits in a cafe drinking and day-dreaming. Only the ghostly appearances from his past make life tolerable. Claude is haunted by memories and visions of 1976, when he was 16 and his sister Marina only a child. Together they belonged to the world of wild young things living on the edge, but when Marina started to lose her way, Claude did nothing to save her.
Recenzijos
Fascinating, well written and rewardingly different from the countless novels about people you think you recognise or, worse, think you are. Anthology of Apparitions is a valuable and at times tender examination of an unenviable, alien soul -- Simon Baker * New Statesman *
Simon Liberati (b. 1960) is a French journalist and writer. After graduating from the Sorbonne, he began his career writing for FHM, Grazia and 20Ans. In 2004, he published Anthology of Apparitions (Anthologie des apparitions), followed by Nada exist in 2007, L hyper Justine in 2009 (for which he won the 2009 Prix de Flore) and Jayne Mansfield 1967 in 2011.
