Heatwave

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I nearly wished there was more but ultimately I think keeping it short is what makes it so poignant and powerful.

I could almost feel the intense heat, and thus I could empathize with the protagonist's apathy caused by the heat. Mooie sfeerschepping van het campingleven ook, ik heb nooit op een camping verbleven en bij het lezen van sommige passages weet ik weer waarom me dat nooit heeft aangesproken. A literary sensation in France, Heatwave is an unsettling and evocative novel that examines our darkest impulses.A mesmerizing, “fiery page-turner” ( Entertainment Weekly) about a teenage boy on summer vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and becomes trapped in a spiral of guilt and desire—in the tradition of Alice McDermott’ s That Night and E. Il secondo richiamo è quello che avvicina questa opera prima di Victor Jestin a tutti i romanzi (francesi) dedicati all’adolescenza tormentata, da Sagan a Radiguet.

Leonard more than once observes the pink rabbit followed by a trail of holiday makers participating in a game, turning his observation into a fever dream or, more likely, a nightmare. This slim but memorable novel of teenage boredom and discontent is the ideal accompaniment to the hottest days of summer . Victor Jestin's debut novella centers around the question why Léo didn't stop Oscar, and why he didn't report what he saw and hid the corpse instead. Mooi portret van een adolescent, die het gevoel heeft dat hij niet thuis hoort in de wereld waarin hij zich momenteel bevindt. It started out as one kid grappling with the burden of watching another kid die - then did a major detour for most of the other 100 pages whilst Leonard and every other kid had nothing but sex in their heads - and then I was supposed to care again right at the end when the author decided he had to tie up the narrative for the dead kid.Kingsolver’s ferocious indictment of the pharmaceutical industry, angrily stated by a local girl who has become a nurse, is in the best Dickensian tradition, and Demon gives a harrowing account of his descent into addiction with his beloved Dori (as naïve as Dickens’ Dora in her own screwed-up way).

The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. He had done that on his own and, to judge from the expression on his face, he might have changed his mind. The references to the heat don’t only add to the atmosphere, Jestin also uses it to reference global warming and our ignorance of the climate crisis: “Every year it got hot earlier – this year it had been in February – and we had welcomed it without fear, happy to see the end of winter; we’d sat out on café terraces with no sense of foreboding about what it might mean. On the final Friday of the trip, unable to sleep, Leonard goes for a walk and sees one of the boys from the campsite, Oscar, hanging from the rope of a playground swing.

With echoes of the films of Francois Ozon, this intense, slim novel is a hot summer read that lingers long after you finish the last page’ Laura Sims, author of Looker ‘A fiery page-turner’ Entertainment Weekly ‘Jestin’s charged and chilling debut turns on a stifling vacation that descends from purgatory into a nightmarish inferno’ Publishers Weekly ‘Victor Jestin succeeds in transporting us with almost nothing, this unique style, this voice—one might almost say these whispers. This was a short and suspenseful read set in France in the midst of summer perfect for a lazy day on the beach or by a pool.

Léonard voelt zich niet goed in zijn vel - hij heeft er de leeftijd voor - en het kunstmatige campingleven met zijn opgedrongen groepsgevoel, de apérospelletjes, de aquagym maakt het er allemaal niet beter op. As he wanders among the dunes, he sees Oscar, one of the cooler kids, drunk in a playground, hanging by his neck from the ropes of a swing. k.a 'Leo,' mired in some particularly severe adolescent angst during his family's annual summer holiday to a community campground on a beachfront.

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