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Red Lights
Georges Simenon
Translated from the French
by Norman Denny
#UB8582
Paperback, 154 pages; 2006 (1955)
$14.00
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If you're unfamiliar with the brilliant and prolific Georges Simenon—or if you simply missed Red Lights—you'll want to read this intensely perceptive and thrilling novel. Set in New England, the action begins with an argument between Steve Hogan and his wife, Nancy, as they are driving to Maine to pick up their children from camp. Steve stops for a drink (against Nancy's wishes), and while he's in the bar, she leaves, on foot, without him. While searching for his wife, Steve enters an altered psychological state that he's experienced before and calls "the tunnel." The details of what actually happens that night only start to become clear when Steve wakes up on the side of the road the next day and subsequently discovers that his wife has been hospitalized. My heart raced through every page of this psychological novel and, though I was expecting a shocking ending, I was surprised by what was shocking about it! Brave souls will enjoy this shrewd and chilling little book from the fifties.
(CH)
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