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Dalkey Archive Press (2010), Paperback, 420 pages
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The unbuttoned, unkempt, unlikely fiction of Pierre Siniac is a slap in the face of the traditional crime novel, and The Collaborators is his best and most hilarious book...
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LibraryThing member jonfaith
I 'm not sure if it is an apt testament to his novel, but I was saddened by the discovery that Pierre Siniac had passed away. It should be noted that it was on the back of the novel, that I discovered this mortality. My stupidity often baffles me. I suppose that such is the point of being stupid.
Likely 4.5 stars, I would've swept through it in three days had I not switched gears with Shah of Shahs and then experienced a subsequent absence of focus. Waiting in line at a book sale last night, I thought it due time to return to The Collaborators which is a farce stuffed into a tragedy. The tragedy being The Occupation and the subsequent revisionism of the nationwide Resistance myth. Oh well. Rather than being a novel length homage to Celine, I found The Collaborators to be an admirable updating of Balzac's Lost Illusions.
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Likely 4.5 stars, I would've swept through it in three days had I not switched gears with Shah of Shahs and then experienced a subsequent absence of focus. Waiting in line at a book sale last night, I thought it due time to return to The Collaborators which is a farce stuffed into a tragedy. The tragedy being The Occupation and the subsequent revisionism of the nationwide Resistance myth. Oh well. Rather than being a novel length homage to Celine, I found The Collaborators to be an admirable updating of Balzac's Lost Illusions.
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420 p.; 7.96 inches
ISBN
1564785793 / 9781564785794