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Accrocs
Cinq filles et garçons racontent une année de leur vie au lycée, sur le mode de l'humour désenchanté, et expliquent leurs premières expériences du monde adulte.
144 pages, Paperback
Published May 18, 2009
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About the author
Gilles Abier
49 books4 followersGilles Abier was born in Paris, France. After a few years of letting him play in the Parc des Buttes Chaumont, a large park in the north-eastern part of Paris, his parents moved out to the suburbs.
At 17, Gilles left home to work at small jobs in Rouen (Normandy), study French literature at the University of Grenoble (near the Alps), and work in an advertising agency in Paris.
At the age of 22, after a week-long holiday in London, he decided to live there for a short while. He ended up staying for seven years. To improve his English, he studied theatre at a drama school in Manchester. Back in London, while looking for a job as an actor with a French accent, Gilles had plenty of time to write. Regardless of his various travels, jobs, or studies, Gilles always had a pen in hand, never thinking that writing could be anything more than a hobby.
When an adult novel that he had written between auditions was about to get published in France, he went back to Paris (near the Parc des Buttes Chaumont), where he found a part-time job at the Pompidou Centre.
One day, an editor suggested that he write a play for children, which she then published. Gilles enjoyed the experience so much that he went on inventing stories for kids, teenagers, and now young adults.
Today, he lives in St. Denis (north of Paris), still works two weekends a month at the Pompidou Centre, and carries on writing stories.
At 17, Gilles left home to work at small jobs in Rouen (Normandy), study French literature at the University of Grenoble (near the Alps), and work in an advertising agency in Paris.
At the age of 22, after a week-long holiday in London, he decided to live there for a short while. He ended up staying for seven years. To improve his English, he studied theatre at a drama school in Manchester. Back in London, while looking for a job as an actor with a French accent, Gilles had plenty of time to write. Regardless of his various travels, jobs, or studies, Gilles always had a pen in hand, never thinking that writing could be anything more than a hobby.
When an adult novel that he had written between auditions was about to get published in France, he went back to Paris (near the Parc des Buttes Chaumont), where he found a part-time job at the Pompidou Centre.
One day, an editor suggested that he write a play for children, which she then published. Gilles enjoyed the experience so much that he went on inventing stories for kids, teenagers, and now young adults.
Today, he lives in St. Denis (north of Paris), still works two weekends a month at the Pompidou Centre, and carries on writing stories.
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January 11, 2014
Accros est un roman qui se décompose en cinq nouvelles,elles relatent des histoires d'adolescents ordinaires dans des situations différentes mais qui se retrouvent tous en fin de compte dans des situations explosives.
C''est un livre qui aborde avec brio, la quête de soi, la sexualité, les relations familiales, le suicide, l'homosexualité, la prostitution... Toutes les questions que se posent les adolescents sont évoquées dans ces courtes nouvelles. Une fois de plus Gilles Abier nous étonne avec son écriture tellement réaliste, les mots sont bien choisis , incisifs, son style est assez cru, les thèmes aussi.
Certains, je pense pourront être choqués par le style mais il faut reconnaître que l'auteur a le sens de l'intrigue et de la chute.
En conclusion : Gilles Abier a réussi en 140 pages a me transporter une fois de plus dans l'univers de l'adolescence avec une facilité qui lui est propre, son écriture m'interpelle à chaque fois, ses sujets bien que tous différents sont tellement loquaces que j’apprécie toujours autant . J'aime beaucoup son humour noir avec lequel il dresse ces portraits d’adolescents de nos jours. Je dirais que ce livre est à réserver principalement aux adolescents les plus avertis et aux jeunes adultes.
C''est un livre qui aborde avec brio, la quête de soi, la sexualité, les relations familiales, le suicide, l'homosexualité, la prostitution... Toutes les questions que se posent les adolescents sont évoquées dans ces courtes nouvelles. Une fois de plus Gilles Abier nous étonne avec son écriture tellement réaliste, les mots sont bien choisis , incisifs, son style est assez cru, les thèmes aussi.
Certains, je pense pourront être choqués par le style mais il faut reconnaître que l'auteur a le sens de l'intrigue et de la chute.
En conclusion : Gilles Abier a réussi en 140 pages a me transporter une fois de plus dans l'univers de l'adolescence avec une facilité qui lui est propre, son écriture m'interpelle à chaque fois, ses sujets bien que tous différents sont tellement loquaces que j’apprécie toujours autant . J'aime beaucoup son humour noir avec lequel il dresse ces portraits d’adolescents de nos jours. Je dirais que ce livre est à réserver principalement aux adolescents les plus avertis et aux jeunes adultes.
December 26, 2016
I have to raise my rating of one star because I actually really liked this book! I saw that it was compared to Skins. I wouldn't say that I liked it as much as I love Skins but, still, it was really good and pretty intense! 5 short stories following 5 teenagers, some of them a bit more destructive than others... Raw, real, well written!
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