Author | : Georges Simenon |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2011-10-18 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1590175549 |
For forty years Charles Alavoine has sleepwalked through his life. Growing up as a good boy in the grip of a domineering mother, he trains as a doctor, marries, opens a medical practice in a quiet country town, and settles into an existence of impeccable bourgeois conformity. And yet at unguarded moments this model family man is haunted by a sense of emptiness and futility. Then, one night, laden with Christmas presents, he meets Martine. It is time for the sleeper to awake.