Eskimo Solution

Life imitates art in Pascal Garnier's offbeat tale of a crime writer and the murderous protagonist of his novel A crime writer uses the modest advance on his latest novel to rent a house on the Normandy coast. There should be little to distract him from his work besides walks on the windswept beach, but as he begins to tell the tale of forty-­-something Louis - who, after dispatching his own mother, goes on to relieve others of their burdensome elderly relations - events in his own...
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Life imitates art in Pascal Garnier's offbeat tale of a crime writer and the murderous protagonist of his novel A crime writer uses the modest advance on his latest novel to rent a house on the Normandy coast. There should be little to distract him from his work besides walks on the windswept beach, but as he begins to tell the tale of forty-­-something Louis - who, after dispatching his own mother, goes on to relieve others of their burdensome elderly relations - events in his own life begin to overlap with the work of his imagination. AUTHOR: Pascal Garnier was a leading figure in contemporary French literature. He lived in a village in the Ardeche. He died in March 2010. SELLING POINTS: * Critically acclaimed author with high-­-profile fans including Ian Rankin and John Banville * A striking new cover look * Market: Herman Koch, Patricia Highsmith, Georges Simenon, Jim Thompson REVIEWS of the work of Pascal Garnier: "Horribly funny ... appalling and bracing in equal measure" - John Banville "A mixture of Albert Camus and JG Ballard" - FT "Bleak, often funny and never predictable" - The Observer "A brilliant exercise in grim and gripping irony, it makes you grin as well as wince." - Sunday Telegraph "Deliciously dark ... painfully funny" - New York Times