![]() ![]() Different as he and the narrator are, they nonetheless initiate an affair that takes place in hidden rooms on campus and at the narrator’s home when his parents aren’t around. ![]() Thomas is beautiful but not worldly he’s a sensitive, stunted stud who doesn’t see a way out of the town. Written in an almost confessional first-person, Besson’s ( His Brother, 2005, etc.) latest is a French bestseller set in the mid-1980s in a small, "gray" Bordeaux town “doomed to disappear.” The narrator, an ambitious high school student and son of the principal, falls deeply for a fellow student, the “slender and distant” Thomas Andrieu, a character in the novel but also apparently an actual person to whom the novel is dedicated. ![]() A bestselling French writer-or at least the novelized version of a bestselling French writer-reckons in older age with a passionate affair he had as a young man. ![]()
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