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Mémoires

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Leurs yeux ont beau être le miroir de leur âme, comme tout le monde porte des lunettes de soleil, il n'y a pas grand-chose à voir.

Une journaliste désargentée accepte d'écrire la biographie de Mark Haskell Smith, auteur peu connu et apparemment sans intérêt. Peu importe finalement puisqu'elle a besoin d'argent.
Elle aurait pourtant mieux fait de se méfier. Dès le départ, les choses ne s'annoncent pas bien : retiré en Grèce, Smith ne répond pas au téléphone et semble agoraphobe. Sa jeunesse, sans relief, n'a guère laissé de traces. Personne ne se souvient d'éléments intéressants le concernant et elle désespère de pouvoir enfin avancer.

C'est alors qu'un mystérieux commando débarque chez elle, armé, pour lui demander pourquoi elle s'intéresse à Smith, et finalement kidnapper son copain.
Quelques jours plus tard elle est elle-même enlevée et se réveille dans les Balkans...

Une histoire échevelée, drôle et originale. Et une satire sociale décapante.

272 pages, Hardcover

Published June 6, 2024

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Mark Haskell Smith

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Mark Haskell Smith is the author of seven novels with one word titles, most recently Blown and Memoires, and three nonfiction books including Rude Talk in Athens and Naked at Lunch.

He lives in Los Angeles. He likes Mexican food.

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Author 4 books55 followers
August 14, 2024
It's really great. This is how every author should write their memoir, Mark takes the ego out of it and lets a fictional journalist guide us through. Wait, is she fictional?
Slightly reminiscent of Norm MacDonald's memoir, but, Norm is a comedian and his memoir was total fabrication, Mark pulls off this stunt as an author and screenwriter with much more truth (stuff we can actually fact check), looking back on his career in the best way possible, with an entertaining read.
It's the best autobiography of an author I have ever read. Or, is it a novel? Can it be both?
Personally, I feel there's more truth in a novel than in a memoir, so, what if Mark has found the precise formula for future memoir authors to craft a memoir with more honesty than a memoir?
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December 7, 2024
Mark Haskell Smith is more popular in France than in his native country. The French translation of this novel has been issued while it remains unpublished in the US as far as I know.
A crazy plot is not enough to make a compelling read. To say nothing of the characters or the dialogs.
I spent 22 bucks on it so I finished reading.
In Smith's defense, I read his book right after Rohinton Mistry's stunning A Fine Balance. They're not in the same league.
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