Title
The Mystery Guest: A True Story - Paperback
by Grégoire Bouillier (Author), Ben Truman (Translator)
A "frank and wry, mad and graceful" true story about getting dumped, and getting over it. (Slate, Best Books of the Year)
When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn't have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she'd vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he'd never met.
Here is the unlikely but true account of how one man got over a poken heart, regained his faith in literature, participated--by mistake--in a work of performance art, threw away his turtlenecks, spent his rent money on a 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank, and fell in love again. Named one of the year's best books by Slate and the San Francisco Chronicle when it first appeared in English, The Mystery Guest is a "sad, funny and vivid" memoir that "gives shape to the painful yet somehow hilarious disjunction that is the residue of a shattered love affair." (--Erica Wagner, The New York Times Book Review).
Author Biography
Grégoire Bouillier was born in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, and raised in Paris. A former editor of the magazine Science et Vie, he is the author of four works of autobiography, incluidng Report on Myself and Le Dossier M. Having worked as a painter and journalist, he published his first memoir, The Mystery Guest, when he was forty years old.
A London native, Ben Truman lives in New York. Sheila Heti is the author of ten books, including the novels Pure Colour, Motherhood, and How Should a Person Be?CrossSelling is by far one of the best ways to boost sales in your ecommerce store. It doesn’t even require a lot of additional work! On average, CrossSelling is considered to be 20 times more effective
by Grégoire Bouillier (Author), Ben Truman (Translator)
A "frank and wry, mad and graceful" true story about getting dumped, and getting over it. (Slate, Best Books of the Year)
When the phone rang on a cold November afternoon in 1990, Grégoire Bouillier had no way of knowing that the caller was the woman who had left him, without warning, five years before. And he couldn't have guessed why she was calling: not to say she was sorry, not to explain why she'd vanished from his life, but to invite him to a party. A birthday party. For a woman he'd never met.
Here is the unlikely but true account of how one man got over a poken heart, regained his faith in literature, participated--by mistake--in a work of performance art, threw away his turtlenecks, spent his rent money on a 1964 bordeaux that nobody ever drank, and fell in love again. Named one of the year's best books by Slate and the San Francisco Chronicle when it first appeared in English, The Mystery Guest is a "sad, funny and vivid" memoir that "gives shape to the painful yet somehow hilarious disjunction that is the residue of a shattered love affair." (--Erica Wagner, The New York Times Book Review).
Author Biography
Grégoire Bouillier was born in Tizi Ouzou, Algeria, and raised in Paris. A former editor of the magazine Science et Vie, he is the author of four works of autobiography, incluidng Report on Myself and Le Dossier M. Having worked as a painter and journalist, he published his first memoir, The Mystery Guest, when he was forty years old.
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