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Vivre vite

Brigitte Giraud (born 1960)

Translated by Cory Stockwell

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In English

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The narrator's husband Claude died in a motorcycle crash in 1999. Two decades later she counts down the days before it: the house they longed to buy, rumoured hidden guns, a hurried renovation, small mishaps. Fate or chance? She pursues every unanswered question.

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About the book

Form
Novel
Length
205 pages in the original
Genres
Autofiction (assigned by AI)
Set in
France, 1999
First published
2022 by Flammarion
Author's age
62 when first published
ISBN

9782080207340 (original)

9780063346727 (Ecco, United States)

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