Dan Franck, Author, Jon Rotschild, Translator Alfred A. Knopf $19 (227p) ISBN 978-0-679-42453-6
``Separation'' seems too benign a word for the excruciating psychological torment the narrator undergoes during the breakup of his seven-year marriage. In a process that starts at a performance of The Tempest when his wife takes her hand from his,...
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Dan Franck, Author, Cynthia Hope Liebow, Translator, Cynthia Liebow, Memoir by , trans. from the French by Cynthia Hope Liebow. Grove $27.50 (430p) ISBN 978-0-8021-1697-0
Franck, an extremely prolific French novelist, has produced some gloomy fictional narratives of wrenching relationships, a few of which have appeared in English (Separation; My Russian Love). He seems to want to lighten up here with a series of...
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Dan Franck, Author, Jon Rothschild, Translator Nan A. Talese $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-385-48488-6
If Robert James Waller had attempted to write a Milan Kundera novel it might have resembled French novelist and screenwriter Franck's (Separation) latest effort. Less a fully fleshed-out narrative than a screenplay waiting to happen, the story...
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