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I'm Off And One Year

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title I'm Off And One Year
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Jean Echenoz
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:224
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenreAnthologies
Modern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9781860469503
ClassificationsDewey:843.914
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Vintage Publishing
Imprint The Harvill Press
Publication Date 3 October 2002
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

"I'm off," says Felix Ferrer to his wife. "I'm leaving you." Thus Ferrer, a creature of appetite, impulse and habit, a man of our times, embarks on a journey to the extremes. After making for the frozen North Pole in pursuit of a rare cargo of Inuit artefacts, he is now back in his atelier in a Paris packed with ex-girlfriends, anxious artists and suspicious creditors, and beginning to feel very hot indeed...

Author Biography

JEAN ECHENOZ was born in Provence in 1947. He studied organic chemistry in Lille and then double bass in Metz before he turned to writing. He is one of the most influential French writers of his generation. He won, in 1999, the Prix Goncourt for his novel I'm Off. He is also the author of Piano.

Reviews

Echenoz continues to throw custard pies at literary norms, in particular the machinery of your average novel. But the custartd itself is of a very high quality... An extraordinary book... a fresh and amazingly graceful way of looking at the world -- Giles Foden * Guardian * All the Pooterish school-boyish humour is perfectly caught by Guido Waldman's excellent translation, which paints a bleak landscape with verve and panache, dextrously juggling rueful nerdiness, cliche and slang without once putting a foot wrong. Here's the novel to pack for that springtime read -- Michele Roberts * Financial Times * Echenoz offers more delight in each paragraph than a shelf full of blockbusters * Scotsman * A sly mixture of intrigue, sexual observation and acid social commentary, created in an atmosphere of relentless suspicion * Daily Telegraph * Ironic, witty, detached, knowing and not unsympathetic... what makes this book so much fun is Echenoz' ability to create plausible characters who do slightly implausible things in familiar settings * Observer *