The Man with the Little Dog

Turquoise cloth over brown boards, copper lettering, 169 pp. Slight edge wear and rubbing, jacket in new Brodart, slight edge wear, a bit of sunning. A tight, attractive copy. ; Spine somewhat slanted, ex-library w/ usual stamps. DJ in protective wrap taped to boards. A bright, attractive copy. ; Inspector Maigret; 7 " - 9 " Tall; 169 pages; "Felix Allard is growing old alone. He acquires Bib, a small mutt poodle, at the pound. He talks to him, takes him for long walks. A clever animal, Bib can play dead, close doors, and do back somersaults. He may even once have been a circus dog.
" Regarding the world with the cold eye of a camera, the old man remembers, takes stock of his life - as he prepares to leave it.
" But at Sacre-Coeur, on a flight of steps in a park overlooking Paris, he passes a couple: the man a dwarf with a hairless, monstrous head, the woman a cripple with her legs in braces. They are a couple radiant with love for each other and full of joy in the anticipation of the famous view of the city. Suddenly Monsieur Felix is no longer sure of his detachment. Emotions surface, troubling scenes from the past: lust, pride, jealousy, prison . . .
" Here is a superb study of how the disease of egoism can eat away at a mans happiness. Simenon presents, as few writers can, both the bleakness and the poetry of human existence."

Product Info

ISBN: 0151569339

ISBN-13: 9780151569335

Publisher: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

Year: 1989

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

First Edition

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Country: United States