An Evening at the Club

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"Irresistible a major writer."
—Le Monde
"A virtuoso piece."
—L'Express
"For some time now it has been clear that [Gailly's work] represents literature at its very best. An Evening at the Club is funny and cruel, moving and brilliant, with never a break in its enormous sensitivity."
—L Humanité
"It is impossible to read Gailly, and this novel in particular, without thinking of swing, a style that is elegant, light, and painful at the same time."
—La Quinzaine
"We never know, with this novelist of the unexpected, whether the chamber piece will become a free-style symphony. It is as though the ghost of Bill Evans had come back as a writer."
—Les Inrockuptibles
"He is a novelist of the minute and the invisible, of the trivial transformed into the extraordinary, the everyday into an adventure."
—Le Journal du Dimanche
"Christian Gailly is an unquestionably gifted writer who has found his voice and constructed a malicious, serious, and subtle work, even a dangerous... Tovább

Fülszöveg

"Irresistible a major writer."
—Le Monde
"A virtuoso piece."
—L'Express
"For some time now it has been clear that [Gailly's work] represents literature at its very best. An Evening at the Club is funny and cruel, moving and brilliant, with never a break in its enormous sensitivity."
—L Humanité
"It is impossible to read Gailly, and this novel in particular, without thinking of swing, a style that is elegant, light, and painful at the same time."
—La Quinzaine
"We never know, with this novelist of the unexpected, whether the chamber piece will become a free-style symphony. It is as though the ghost of Bill Evans had come back as a writer."
—Les Inrockuptibles
"He is a novelist of the minute and the invisible, of the trivial transformed into the extraordinary, the everyday into an adventure."
—Le Journal du Dimanche
"Christian Gailly is an unquestionably gifted writer who has found his voice and constructed a malicious, serious, and subtle work, even a dangerous one."
—Le Nouvel Observateur
"All I want to say about An Evening at the Club is that it is, literally, irresistible. Once you get past the first page, as though it were the door of the club, it's impossible to tear yourself away from its music. The cadence of this prose, its rhythms, its breaks, its archness, its intensity, its hypersensitivity, put us right in the narrator's place. Christian Gailly has no equal."
—Lire
An Evening at the Club tells the story of a love triangle through the virtuoso style of the widely celebrated French novelist Christian Gailly. This novel has become a cause célebre throughout Europe. A number one bestseller in France, it won the coveted 2002 Prix Livre Inter and has already been translated into Russian, Italian, and German. Other Press is proud to bring out the English translation of Gailly's most highly acclaimed work.
In order to save his life and his marriage, Simon Nardis gave up his career as an outstandingly innovative jazz pianist. No more road trips, alcohol, drugs, or women. And no more jazz. For ten years, Simon has worked at a humdrum job and led a quiet home life with his wife, Suzanne.Then, one evening, he finds himself in a jazz club owned by the American singer Debbie Parker. The sudden, irresistible reawakening of sexual and artistic passion in this middleaged man leads to a tragicomedy of missed trains and missed opportunities, as seen through the eyes of Suzanne, Debbie, and a painter, the good friend of Simon who tells their story and, indirectly, his own. Vissza