Title : The Curtain on the Night - Jean-Philippe Arrou-Vignod - book

Summary :

French First Novel Prize 1984

After brilliant studies at King's College, Cambridge, Paul Finney returns to the austere, magical, and sensual family home of Greenore with the intention of starting a book there during the summer. But the presence of his family (his father, his mother Theodora, and his sisters Ann, Lisa, and Tuesday) and the thousand temptations of a lazily traditional luxury will thwart his project while sharpening his lucidity and humor. If he misses his own accomplishment from the start, he will succeed, on the contrary—in a sumptuously ferocious manner—in analyzing the destruction of a family unit previously united by fortune and the hushed sweetness of old aristocratic rites. Nourished by the ambiguous and caressing memories of a golden childhood, what will ultimately become of this young man full of love, hope, and mistrust, on the threshold of a dubious future? How can one resist the painful, even desperate, desire to draw the "curtain on the night" in front of him in order to conceal his history, past, present and future included?

• EAN : 9782070702046
  
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