A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master. Gerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the métier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and backroom maneuvering. At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then coopted by one of the party's less savory factions, sinking in deeper and deeper until he finds himself the reluctant assassin of the party's own leader-and that's when things really start going downhill. Meanwhile, projectiles crash down from the sky, corpses turn up in perfect health, main characters suffer sudden death, and nothing is as it seems. In his latest outing, Jean Echenoz, one of France's most respected contemporary writers, toys with the tropes of genre fiction and high literature, displaying the twists of plot and turns of phrase that have become his signature, and that have made him, in the words of The Washington Post, "the most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel."
| ISBN: | 9781681378558 |
| Publication date: | 11th March 2025 |
| Author: | Jean Echenoz |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 162 pages |
| Series: | New York Review Books Classics |
| Genres: |
Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
A thrilling, inventive, playful, and unorthodox detective and caper novel, the latest work by a French master. Gerard Fulmard is a loser. A disgraced former flight attendant, he attempts the métier of private detective, with spectacularly disastrous results, then begins working for an obscure political groupuscule beset by an outsized share of infighting and backroom maneuvering. At first employed as an enforcer, Fulmard is then coopted by one of the party's less savory factions, sinking in deeper and deeper until he finds himself the reluctant assassin of the party's own leader-and that's when things really start going downhill. Meanwhile, projectiles crash down from the sky, corpses turn up in perfect health, main characters suffer sudden death, and nothing is as it seems. In his latest outing, Jean Echenoz, one of France's most respected contemporary writers, toys with the tropes of genre fiction and high literature, displaying the twists of plot and turns of phrase that have become his signature, and that have made him, in the words of The Washington Post, "the most distinctive voice of his generation and the master magician of the contemporary French novel."
Command Performance features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction
Command Performance is available in Paperback
Command Performance was written by Jean Echenoz and published by New York Review Books
Command Performance has 162 pages
Yes it is part of New York Review Books Classics series
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