Emmanuel Carrere, Author Collier Books $7.95 (146p) ISBN 978-0-02-018870-4
In the opening pages of this compelling first paperback original of the Collier Fiction series, the nameless narrator describes, in sensuous detail, his shaving off, at whim, of a 10-year-old mustache. His wife, Agnes, ignores his ""metamorphosis''...
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Emmanuel Carrere, Author, Lanie Goodman, Translator Scribner Book Company $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-684-19199-7
An allusive and contrived retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1818) and the circumstances of its composition--when the Shelleys, Byron, and his mad young medic ``poor Polidori'' lived abroad and traded ghost stories--this novel shuttles to and
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Emmanuel Carr%C3%A8re, trans. from the French by Linda Coverdale. Holt, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-0-8050-9261-5
Carrère (The Adversary) somewhat smugly asserts himself, in this autobiographical novel, as a puppeteer of grand emotions, evoking with a merciless hand incredible sadness, hope, and even surprise. When the tsunami hits Sri Lanka in 2004, Carrère's...
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Emmanuel Carrère, trans. from the French by John Lambert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (336p) ISBN 978-0-374-19201-3
This deft, timely translation of French writer and filmmaker Carrère’s sparkling 2011 biography of Edward Limonov is an enthralling portrait of a man and his times. The subtitle is no exaggeration: Limonov, a prolific and celebrated author,...
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Emmanuel Carrère, trans. from the French by John Lambert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $27 (400p) ISBN 978-0-374-18430-8
The latest from Carrère (Limonov) is a tale of modern and ancient Christianity, filtered through a text that’s equal parts memoir, academic essay, and fictional exploration. Starting first with the author’s brief, intense relationship with religion...
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Emmanuel Carrère, trans by Linda Coverdale, Metropolitan, $25 (288p) ISBN 978-0-8050-8755-0
In this compelling, intensely interior-driven narrative, French author Carrère (The Adversary) uses as a point of departure the return of a Hungarian mental patient imprisoned in a Russian hospital since the end of WWII to unlock the author’s own...
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Emmanuel Carrere, Author, Linda Coverdale, Translator Metropolitan Books $19.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8050-4694-6
If Sartre had written an episode of the Twilight Zone, it might have been Carrere's much-lauded The Mustache, in which a man who shaves off his signature facial hair finds that his very identity is eradicated. Carrere's latest, winner of France's...
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Emmanuel Carrere, Author, Timothy Bent, Translator Metropolitan Books $26 (336p) ISBN 978-0-8050-5464-4
French screenwriter and novelist Emmanuel Carrere (The Adversary) relies heavily on analysis of the novels of SF giant Philip K. Dick (1928-1982) in his painful and unconventional biography, I Am Alive and You Are Dead: A Journey into the Mind ...
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Emmanuel Carrere, Author, Linda Conerdale, Translator Metropolitan Books $22 (191p) ISBN 978-0-8050-6583-1
Those who knew Jean-Claude Romand knew him as a loving father and husband, a brilliant physician with a prestigious post at the World Health Organization and a good-natured, unassuming friend. So when in January 1993, Romand's wife, children and...
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Emmanuel Carrère, trans. from the French by John Lambert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $28 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-17820-8
This selection of short nonfiction by Carrère (The Kingdom) offers a fine overview of his career, with essays spanning 1990–2016. Carrère’s style mixes research and reportage with personal anecdote—he has a keen wit, unrelenting self-honesty, and a...
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