Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 04/11/2021
ISBN: 9780241487099
Length: 300 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 129mm
Weight: 500g
RRP: £8.99
Hector Loursat, a lawyer in the small town of Moulins, has lived as a drunken recluse since his wife left him eighteen years previously. Unmoored from society and estranged from his daughter, he shuts himself away, numbed by endless bottles of burgundy. But when a dead man is found in his house one night, the resulting police investigation unearths secrets that shake the town - and Loursat's isolation - to the core. No longer able to ignore the world, he emerges to take on the murder case himself and confront the lives of Moulins' by-ways and back streets.
In the progressive break-down of Loursat's self-imposed isolation, Simenon brilliantly depicts the psychology of loneliness and a man's tortured re-engagement with humanity and its darkest acts.
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Published: 04/11/2021
ISBN: 9780241487099
Length: 300 Pages
Dimensions: 198mm x 35mm x 129mm
Weight: 500g
RRP: £8.99