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A review by chrissie57
French Rhapsody by Antoine Laurain
5.0
Antoine Laurain is definitely my author of the year, although I rather wish I was able to read them in the original French. Reading in translation, I often wonder what nuances I might be missing.
Dr Alain Massoulier is a doctor in his late fifties, established and respectable. But back in 1983, he played guitar in a rock band hoping (of course) to hit the big time. Their efforts come to nothing and the group break up and go their seperate ways, not having convinced any record company to take them on. In the present day, Alain receives a letter from Polydor written in 1983 and delayed for 33 years, offering the group(The Holograms) a meeting on the strength of their demo tape. Alain decides to track down the other members of the band to see if any them still have the tape in question, after finding he has thrown his copy away; he also replies to the executive who first contacted them.
As is usual with Laurain's books, we set off on the journey with him and there are several surprises, not to say shocks, on the way. We see what each character in turn is doing now and how their lives have developed. This book, as with all this authors works, is a quick read, only 215 pages long but he makes every single word count and I found myself completely caught up in Alain's quest for his lost youth
Dr Alain Massoulier is a doctor in his late fifties, established and respectable. But back in 1983, he played guitar in a rock band hoping (of course) to hit the big time. Their efforts come to nothing and the group break up and go their seperate ways, not having convinced any record company to take them on. In the present day, Alain receives a letter from Polydor written in 1983 and delayed for 33 years, offering the group(The Holograms) a meeting on the strength of their demo tape. Alain decides to track down the other members of the band to see if any them still have the tape in question, after finding he has thrown his copy away; he also replies to the executive who first contacted them.
As is usual with Laurain's books, we set off on the journey with him and there are several surprises, not to say shocks, on the way. We see what each character in turn is doing now and how their lives have developed. This book, as with all this authors works, is a quick read, only 215 pages long but he makes every single word count and I found myself completely caught up in Alain's quest for his lost youth