![]() If one can look past the tough-guy facades of the main characters – and Besson's vivid first-person narration does wonders at revealing the churning thoughts and repressed feelings hiding behind such exteriors – one can easily lose oneself in this gorgeously resurrected memory of '80s love, with all its awkward beauty and lost innocence." ![]() "Ultimately, simply a beautiful and poignant love story, a short and very French tale whose sparse, delicate prose is gorgeously translated by Molly Ringwald, retaining all of its heart-stopping power. Small ripples can make the fiercest waves." More than 20 years after his last encounter with Thomas, Philippe runs into his former lover's doppelganger, and a chance discovery shatters the gentle reverie of the past. Told in three parts, the slender novel recounts a clandestine romance between two teenage boys in 1984. ![]() "French author Philippe Besson's international best seller Lie With Me is now available Stateside thanks to actor, author, and erstwhile Parisian Molly Ringwald's fluid translation. Besson is a gifted stylist, and he infuses Philippe's story with the right notes of sadness and longing. perfectly captures what it's like to be young and in love. “ Lie with Me succeeds as a novel because of Besson's graceful writing, beautifully translated by Ringwald. Triggered by the sighting, he traces the story of his secret high-school affair with that lover: It was brief in tenure but formed the mold into which he has since tried to press every other romantic relationship." who catches a glimpse of what he thinks is a past lover in a hotel. Lie With Me is the story of a successful (unnamed) French novelist. " This Year’s Call Me by Your Name Is French: More Meta But Just As Hot. The book reads like a photograph, faded but composed: the bac, linden trees, a green Simca 1100, Lino Ventura. Elle deemed it “the French Brokeback Mountain". An elegiac tale of first, hidden love between two teen-age boys who have no chance of a shared future, Lie With Me sold more than a hundred thousand copies in France, where it won several prizes and is being made into a movie. Ayten Tartici, The New York Times Book Review Equal parts Andre Aciman and Marguerite Duras." the novel captures the full tragedy of the closet. TheSkimm’s LGBTQ+ books to celebrate Pride The Wall Street Journal’s Ten Books You’ll Want to Read this Spring O, The Oprah Magazine’s Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019 “Beautifully translated by Ringwald” (NPR), this is “Philippe Besson’s book of a lifetime.an elegiac tale of first, hidden love” ( The New Yorker).Ī New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Philippe becomes a writer and travels the world, though as this “tender, sensuous novel” ( The New York Times Book Review) shows, he never lets go of the relationship that shaped him, and every story he’s ever told. But they steal time to meet in secret, carrying on a passionate, world-altering affair.ĭespite the intensity of their attraction, from the beginning Thomas knows how it will end: “Because you will leave and we will stay,” he says. At school, they don’t acknowledge each other. Thomas is the son of a farmer Philippe the son of a school principal. What follows is a look back at the relationship he’s never forgotten, a hidden affair with a boy named Thomas during their last year of high school. In this “sexy, pure, and radiant story” ( Out), Philippe chances upon a young man outside a hotel in Bordeaux who bears a striking resemblance to his first love. The critically acclaimed, internationally beloved novel by Philippe Besson-“this year’s Call Me By Your Name” ( Vulture) with raves in The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, Vanity Fair, Vogue, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Out-about an affair between two teenage boys in 1984 France, translated with subtle beauty and haunting lyricism by the iconic and internationally acclaimed actress and writer Molly Ringwald. A stunning and heart-gripping tale.” -André Aciman, author of Call Me by Your NameĪ New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice Two young men find each other, always fearing that life itself might be the villain standing in their way. This one sentence had me in its grip until the end. ![]() “I remember the movement of his hips pressing against the pinball machine. ![]()
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