Missed opportunities.
The Quartanier publisher| N° d'inventaire | 24008 |
| Format | 13 x 19.7 |
| Détails | 288 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Quebec, 2021 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782896985760 |
When her father, suffering from terminal cancer, asks her to drive him from Hanover to a suicide clinic in Switzerland, Martha calls on Betty, her friend of twenty years, for help. Thus begins a burlesque odyssey, which will continue in Italy, where Betty will try to find the grave of her trombonist and liar stepfather, in the hope of freeing herself from a painful part of her personal history : the road novel becomes a thriller.
From Berlin to the Cyclades, through twists and turns and encounters, Betty and Martha search for a father, fathers, and free themselves from the regret of missed opportunities. In a language infused with acid humor and melancholic banter, Lucy Fricke leads her heroines, two forty-year-old women united by confidences and alcohol, towards a life stripped down.
Translated from German by Isabelle Liber.When her father, suffering from terminal cancer, asks her to drive him from Hanover to a suicide clinic in Switzerland, Martha calls on Betty, her friend of twenty years, for help. Thus begins a burlesque odyssey, which will continue in Italy, where Betty will try to find the grave of her trombonist and liar stepfather, in the hope of freeing herself from a painful part of her personal history : the road novel becomes a thriller.
From Berlin to the Cyclades, through twists and turns and encounters, Betty and Martha search for a father, fathers, and free themselves from the regret of missed opportunities. In a language infused with acid humor and melancholic banter, Lucy Fricke leads her heroines, two forty-year-old women united by confidences and alcohol, towards a life stripped down.
Translated from German by Isabelle Liber.