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L'Autre qu'on adorait
“The Other One We Adored” (title translated by AI)
Catherine Cusset (born 1963)
English editions
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Thomas was exuberant, brilliant and doomed: the narrator's lover, then her close friend, he killed himself in America at thirty-nine. She reconstructs his life, from campus scandal and drugs to a romance with a much younger student, and traces with compassion the slow mechanism of his fall.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 290 pages in the original
- Genres
- Autofiction, Love (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United States, France
- First published
- 2016 by Gallimard
- Author's age
- 53 when first published
- ISBN
9782072688201 (original)
- More
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