Title : Three couples in search of storms - Lionel Duroy - book
Summary :
Characters on the threshold of maturity who suddenly dream of improbable storms... A major novel in the work of Lionel Duroy.
They are three ordinary couples: Olivier is a doctor in Senlis and Claire, his wife, a part-time librarian, they have a son. Rémi is a teacher and his partner, Estelle, a sculptor. They suffer from not having children. Pascale, for her part, makes documentaries for television and Jean-Xavier, her husband, has been working for many years on a monumental book while working at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. They have two children. Everything is going well for these three couples. They want for nothing. They are in good health and time passes with the serenity of a Normandy river. Olivier, Rémi and Pascale have been friends since adolescence and nothing seems able to alter the strength of the affection that unites them. And yet, it only takes a harmless comment from Rémi, asking his friends if they don't find their lives deadly boring, for this harmony to crack and burst the bubble of well-being in which they were unwittingly sleeping. "Happy people don't have stories," says popular wisdom. "But they miss it," adds Lionel Duroy. Today, if mutual desire is lacking, the couple loses all foundation and ends the relationship, suddenly deemed too dull. Better (or worse), the one who breaks up is no longer the bad guy. He or she is the hero who takes the risk of sowing disaster to reconquer the only thing worth having: desire. And the one who stays is the culprit, accused of having transformed an adventure that was meant to be unique into all-risk insurance. As always in his work, Lionel Duroy delves into the heart of the contradictions of people's intimate lives. With cheerful lucidity, he reveals the harshness of those ordinary moments when our seemingly tranquil lives collide head-on with the inescapable difficulty of being.
- EAN: 9782290035535
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