The Second Face
( French - La Belle Image - 1941 )
novel by Marcel Ayme
translated by Norman Denny
Published: The Bodley Head - hardback - 1951 ( UK )
ISBN: none
Harper & Brothers - hardback - 1952 ( USA )
ISBN: none
titled "Beautiful Image" ( translated by Sophie Lewis )
Pushkin Press - paperback - 2006
ISBN: 1901285677 / 9781901285673
synopsis
Raoul Cerusier, an entirely ordinary man, seems to have changed his identity somewhere between home and the government office he is visiting to obtain a document. Between blackmailing the secretary of his former self and seducing his own wife, Raoul is confronted with the dark realization of his true nature.
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( French - La Belle Image - 1941 )
novel by Marcel Ayme
translated by Norman Denny
Published: The Bodley Head - hardback - 1951 ( UK )
ISBN: none
Harper & Brothers - hardback - 1952 ( USA )
ISBN: none
titled "Beautiful Image" ( translated by Sophie Lewis )
Pushkin Press - paperback - 2006
ISBN: 1901285677 / 9781901285673
synopsis
Raoul Cerusier, an entirely ordinary man, seems to have changed his identity somewhere between home and the government office he is visiting to obtain a document. Between blackmailing the secretary of his former self and seducing his own wife, Raoul is confronted with the dark realization of his true nature.
awards
....