β Scribed by Philippe Djian
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
**Elle is a psychological thriller that recounts thirty days in the life of its heroine Michele--powerfully portrayed by Isabelle Huppert in Paul Verhoeven's award-winning film--where memory, sex, and death collide on every page.
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A few weeks before Christmas, Michele picks herself up from her living room floor. She has been raped. She has almost no recollection of her attacker but she senses his presence--he is never far away--and this uncanny feeling triggers a whirlwind of events and memories. She begins to fear she is losing her grip on a life already complicated by a demanding job, an ex-husband with a new girlfriend, a jealous lover, and a son trapped in a relationship with his girlfriend pregnant by another man.
Hardened by the consequences of her father's violent past, Michele--nearing fifty, fiercely independent and unsentimental--refuses to be reduced to a victim. When her rapist begins taunting...
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There is both excitement and dismay in Llanfair when a new French restaurant opens. The glamorous owner, Madame Yvette, tries to win over the locals, and everything seems to be going well until a string of fires plagues the town. One night the restaurant burns down, and a body is found in the rubble
EDITORIAL REVIEW: When an unused chapel reopens as a French restaurant, the villagers of Llanfair are excited, but also a bit suspicious.For one thing, it doesn't seem quite right to put a restaurant in what used to be the Lord's house; for another, the owner, Madame Yvette, is a stranger, and
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