The Bicycle Eater
Le Mangeur de bicyclette
Larry Tremblay (born 1954)
Translated by Sheila Fischman
English editions
In EnglishThe Bicycle Eater
Talonbooks · Canada · 15 September 2005 · Paperback · 224 pages
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Christophe Langelier, a young photographer whose only model is Anna, lives for the actress he has loved since they were teenagers. She set the tone from the start by daring him to eat his bicycle if he wanted to sleep with her; he failed, and for ten years he has played the hopeless lover, building a photographic shrine to her and an "Annalexicon" of her palindrome name. On the evening of his twenty-seventh birthday Anna throws him out, while her career takes off beside her childhood love Lâm. Christophe flees to the Yucatán to cure himself, where on the Island of Women a strange, gravely ill Frenchwoman named Rita introduces him to Aztec rites of sacrifice.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 254 pages in the original
- Genres
- Love, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Canada, Mexico
- First published
- 2002 by Leméac
- Author's age
- 48 when first published
- ISBN
9782760932494 (original)
9780889225282 (Talonbooks, Canada)
- More
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