Download e-book for kindle: The Bicycle Eater by Larry Tremblay,Sheila Fischman

By Larry Tremblay,Sheila Fischman

ISBN-10: 0889225281

ISBN-13: 9780889225282

Singularly keen about his all-consuming ardour for Anna, the thing of his adolescent hope, the photographer Christophe Langelier is beside himself. Ten years in the past, he failed the try out of consuming a bicycle for her as facts of his love and devotion. given that then, he has created a photographic catalogue of his simply version, whole with a thesaurus, an “Anna-lexique,” within which the darkness and the sunshine of her idealized being have shaded his language, at the same time her ubiquitous photo has crowded out his personal identity.

Desperate to flee his unrequited love for Anna, Christophe flees to the Island of ladies off the coast of Mexico. There, he sacrifices his former self and starts his transformation from a guy possessed to a guy confused.

The Bicycle Eater is a comic book, surrealist novel of metamorphosis unleashed through hopeless wish, a riotous, vibrant burlesque the place not anything and not anyone stay what they seem.

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