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I wonder what defines me, now. What characteristics I had already ten, fifteen, or twenty years ago, and that I didn’t try to do anything about. Like separating the soft part of the bread from the crust and rolling it into tiny balls, while continuing to talk with someone, who would be transfixed, even concerned: he’s not going to go and eat those things, is he? Oh yes he is. Like making sure the alarm on the clock radio is set at the right time, checking four times in a row, otherwise I have to start all over. In another life, I must have had many obsessive-compulsive behaviors; in this life, that’s the only one I have.
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is back for a second on Tour!
January 25-29, 2016
with
The 6:41 to Paris(fiction)
Release date: December 1, 2015
at New Vessel Press
146 pages
ISBN: 978-1939931269
Cecile, a stylish 47-year-old, has spent the weekend visiting her parents in a provincial town southeast of Paris. By early Monday morning, she’s exhausted. These trips back home are always stressful and she settles into a train compartment with an empty seat beside her. But it’s soon occupied by a man she instantly recognizes: Philippe Leduc, with whom she had a passionate affair that ended in her brutal humiliation 30 years ago. In the fraught hour and a half that ensues, their express train hurtles towards the French capital. Cécile and Philippe undertake their own face to face journey—In silence? What could they possibly say to one another?—with the reader gaining entrée to the most private of thoughts. This is a brilliant psychological thriller, a high-wire act of emotions on rails, about past romance, with all its pain and promise. [provided by the publisher]
FEATURED
IN THE NEW YORK TIMES
SUNDAY BOOK REVIEWS!
Jean-Philippe Blondel
was born in 1964 in Troyes, France
where he lives as an author and English teacher.
His novel The 6:41 to Paris
has been a bestseller in both France and Germany.
Buy the book | on Amazon
Monday, January 25
Review at Svetlana’s Reads and Views
Wednesday, January 27
Review + Giveaway at An Accidental Blog
Thursday, January 28
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at
Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile
Friday, January 29
Review + Giveaway at Readerbuzz
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