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Louis Paul Boon
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| Title: |
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Chapel Road |
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No copies available |
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| Published in: |
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English |
| Binding: |
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Paperback |
| Pages: |
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338 |
| Date: |
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2003-02-01 |
| ISBN: |
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1564782859 |
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Dalkey Archive Press |
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0.91 pounds |
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5.43 x 0.94 x 8.46 inches |
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Product Description
According to the author, Chapel Road "is the book about the childhood of Ondine [. . .] about her brother Valeer-Traleer with his monstrous head wobbling through life this way and that." But the book is about a lot more than that. It is also the story of Louis Paul Boon, an author working on a novel entitled Chapel Road, surrounded by his colorful group of friends. His readers and companions include the painter Tippetotje, who habitually works a naked woman into her paintings, and Johan Janssens, the journalist and poet who is fired from the paper for refusing to agree with the Capitalists, the Socialists or the Ultra-Marxists. Beyond that, Chapel Road includes a retelling of the myth of Reynard the fox and Isengrinus the wolf, a tale that underscores the greed, stupidity, hypocrisy, pride and lust motivating the other characters of the book. Chapel Road is "a pool, a sea, a chaos: it is the book of all that can be heard and seen in Chapel Road, from the year 1800-and-something until today."
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http://bookmooch.com/1564782859 |
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