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The man on the boulevard

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Madame Thouret had no trouble identifying her husband's body.

What puzzled her was that he was wearing light brown shoes and a garish tie she'd never seen before.

Maigret masterfully reconstructs the secret life of a vulnerable man who has made a desperate attempt to evade the failure and isolation of his rigidly conventional life. 'A truly wonderful writer ...marvellously readable - lucid, simple, absolutely in tune with that world he creates of run-down hotels, cold, dark barges, quaysidecanal-taverns, lurking prostitutes, pot-bellied burghers, taciturn youths, slippery barmen.' - Muriel Spark, "Sunday Times."

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Product Details
Penguin Classics
0141025905 / 9780141025902
Paperback
843.912
31/08/2006
United Kingdom
English
Foreign
170 p.
18 cm
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Reprint. This translation originally published: as The man on the beach. London: Hamish Hamilton, 1975.