Soft in the head / Marie-Sabine Roger ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne.
"His mother calls him a worthless halfwit while his fellow drunks at the local bar ensure he's the butt of all their jokes. He spends his days whittling wood, counting pigeons and adding his own name to the list on the town war memorial. So how could Germain possibly anticipate what a casual encounter on a park bench with eighty-five-year old Margueritte might mean? In this touchingly comic tale of an unusual friendship, that first conversation opens a door into a world Germain has never imagined--the world of books and ideas--and gives both him and Margueritte the chance of a happiness they thought had passed them by." -- Amazon.com.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781782271581
- ISBN: 1782271589
- Physical Description: 216 pages ; 20 cm
- Publisher: London : Pushkin Press, 2016.
- Copyright: ©2016
Content descriptions
General Note: | First published in French as La Tête en friche in 2008. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (page 185). |
Language Note: | In English; translated from French. |
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Subject: | Friendship > Fiction. Books and reading > Fiction. Books and reading. Friendship. |
Genre: | Fiction. |
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- 2 of 2 copies available at Sitka.
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Fernie Heritage Library | FIC ROG (Text) | 35136000432451 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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