The President
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- Synopsis
- Restored to print for the first time in more than forty years,The Presidentwas hailed by theNew York Timesas a “tour de force” At 82, the former premier lives in alert and suspicious retirement-self exile-on the Normandy coast, writing his anxiously anticipated memoirs and receiving visits from statesman and biographers. In his library is the self-condemning, handwritten confession of the premier’s former attaché, Chalamont, hidden between the pages of a sumptuously produced work of privately printed pornography-a confession that the premier himself had dictated and forced Chalamont to sign. Now the long-thwarted Chalamont has been summoned to form a new coalition in the wake of the government’s collapse. The premier alone possesses the secret of Chalamont’s guilt, of his true character-and has publicly vowed: “He’ll never be Premier as long as I’m alive. . . Nor when I’m dead, either. ” Inspired by French Premier Georges Clemenceau,The Presidentis a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a probing account of the decline of power.
- Copyright:
- 1922
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- ISBN-13:
- 9781935554622
- Publisher:
- Melville House
- Date of Addition:
- 10/18/11
- Copyrighted By:
- Georges Simenon
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.